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Ep. 55 : July Players Of The Month PC · Cards & Categories

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode fifty five of Cards
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Speaker 1: and Categories. I am Mike Coolard from Rasball, joined as
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Speaker 1: always by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer, also from
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Speaker 1: ras Ball. How are you doing tonight, buddy?
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm an adventure tonight. Let me tell you. I
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Speaker 2: was late to recording our podcast tonight because my son
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Speaker 2: kind of chicken in our neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's fun, you weren't. I mean, it's all right.
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Speaker 1: I'm coming into this podcast a little bit hot. I
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Speaker 1: can't see after the matchup of the lou Jerseys versus
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Speaker 1: those Tampa Bay Devil raised jerseys that we were watching
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Speaker 1: on the Ray's Cardinals game before this, that it's quite
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Speaker 1: the sight when you see both of those city connects
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Speaker 1: go up against each other. But I don't know if
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Speaker 1: that can top of chicken.
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Speaker 2: Yeah again, I don't think you can top of chicken. Luckily,
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Speaker 2: I think we got rid of it, so a local farmer.
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Speaker 2: But hey, if anybody needs chicken, I have apparently have
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Speaker 2: a chicken farmer in my house, and I can provide
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Speaker 2: that that has nothing to do with our fantasy content
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Speaker 2: or card collecting content. But I just if my analysis
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Speaker 2: is a little off tonight. That's probably why, has nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with lack of sleep or pure inability of
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Speaker 2: any sort. So I mean, I'm literally ready.
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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of stuff going on, so we'll
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Speaker 1: get into that here pretty soon, but first we'll preview
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Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about for the main segment.
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Speaker 1: And it is the first podcast of August, so you
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Speaker 1: know what that means out there, listeners. It is Player
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Speaker 1: of the Month PC time, and it is for July.
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Speaker 1: We did not have to dip into the reliever pool
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Speaker 1: this time because we had enough bats and arms that
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Speaker 1: were new come through, and wow, we had some new
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Speaker 1: ones here in July. So we'll get into that for
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Speaker 1: the second half of our show after we get through
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Speaker 1: our news notes updates that are affecting all the fantasy
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Speaker 1: games out there. And you know what, last week, we
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Speaker 1: laid down the injury curse pretty hard. So I think
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna open this a little lighter as we get
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Speaker 1: into some promotions and other transactions that have happened since
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Speaker 1: we talked last week. And this is especially the time
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Speaker 1: when we start to see some of those call ups
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Speaker 1: happen from the minor leagues again, kind of like another
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Speaker 1: wave after that Super two period just about two months ago.
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Speaker 1: You know at the beginning of June that after the
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Speaker 1: trade deadline, teams are shuffling around rosters so that they
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Speaker 1: can try to bring up some of those new prospects
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Speaker 1: and get them major league time here again before we
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Speaker 1: get into September, although that's not significant without the forty
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Speaker 1: man rosters. But let's get into some of those transactions
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Speaker 1: as the first one we've got is a pretty significant one,
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Speaker 1: as the Baltimore Orioles have called up Kobe Mayo in
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Speaker 1: place of Jordan Westberg hitting the injured list. So Kobe
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Speaker 1: Mayo has been playing I believe third base for the
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Speaker 1: Orioles so far, and that is correct. He's got four
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Speaker 1: games at third and then that's all of them. So
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Speaker 1: in those four games he has put up fourteen played
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Speaker 1: appearances as we're speaking here on the evening of August seventh,
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Speaker 1: and he is so far hitless with eight strikeouts. It's
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Speaker 1: a fifty seven point one percent k rate. It does
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Speaker 1: look like he's pressing a lot the way Jackson Holliday
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Speaker 1: when he first came up did, because Mayo was on
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Speaker 1: fire and triple A. He was slashing three oh one,
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Speaker 1: three seventy five Friday eighty six with twenty homers. That
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Speaker 1: was good for a one forty two WRC plus. So Brew,
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Speaker 1: what how aggressive you being with Mayo given, you know,
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Speaker 1: if you are in a league where maybe there's still
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Speaker 1: a fab opportunity. I actually had this in GGFB high
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Speaker 1: this past weekend because he was hanging out there and
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Speaker 1: I blew most of the budget I had remaining to
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Speaker 1: be able to bring in Mayo. But if you've already
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Speaker 1: seen these fourteen played appearances with the eight strikeouts, are
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Speaker 1: you worried?
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Speaker 2: Are you you?
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Speaker 1: Are you thinking he might have to go back down
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Speaker 1: like Jackson Holliday? Or do you think he's going to
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Speaker 1: be allowed to work through it at the major league level?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think I think he's you know,
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Speaker 2: they call him at this point, they're they're pretty confident
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Speaker 2: and they're gonna try to let him work through. Like
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Speaker 2: there was I don't know any question in my mind
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Speaker 2: that they were waiting for a spot to make sure
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Speaker 2: Mayo was going to play. This wasn't a hessen kearstab
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Speaker 2: perspective here. We're like, ah, we'll plug and play. He's
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Speaker 2: he's ready for the majors, but we don't want to
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Speaker 2: you know, we're not worried about stunting as growth. Let's
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Speaker 2: a whole different discussions. But I disagree with that. But
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Speaker 2: you know, I think they were waiting for Mayo to
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Speaker 2: fully have a spot and be ready to contribute. And
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Speaker 2: with all the moves they made, they open spots up
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Speaker 2: the West forgot hurt. So I think Mayo's here to stay.
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Speaker 2: And you know, you know, I'm treating him as probably
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Speaker 2: a back quarter of the top one hundred hitters at
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Speaker 2: this point in time. Maybe I'm maybe trying to sneak
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Speaker 2: into that that third quarter there. And so if you're
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Speaker 2: if you're looking at him end of the season, I
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Speaker 2: hear we're talking about a guy that's really really delivered
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Speaker 2: throughout the miners this year. You know, hit twenty homers
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Speaker 2: three to one average. You know, he driving runs, has
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Speaker 2: the RBIs, and he definitely has the profile that seems
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Speaker 2: like he's gonna play pretty patient of the plate, really
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Speaker 2: cut down the strikeouts and kept those in a reasonable range.
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Speaker 2: So I think I think BeO is here to stay
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Speaker 2: and he's gonna be a mainstay for us. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: he might just stumble a little bit here and there.
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Speaker 2: But I'm I'm I'm all in on Mayo.
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Speaker 1: I be and my TGFBI squad like to hear that
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Speaker 1: because it is sorely needed given that we've been carrying
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Speaker 1: Paul Goldschman at the corner infield all season that if
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Speaker 1: we can get some good production now of Kobe Mayo
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Speaker 1: down the stretch, it would be greatly appreciated. So let's
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Speaker 1: get into another debut another corner guy here, and that
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Speaker 1: is Zach Decenso for the Houston Astros. As he's coming up.
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Speaker 1: He's been playing some first base down in Triple A
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Speaker 1: as they've been trying to really find a solution that
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Speaker 1: works instead of John Singleton, as the Astros are still
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Speaker 1: reeling to replace jose A Brayu. I mean they dealt
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Speaker 1: out Joey lo Berfito. I was actually surprised that they
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Speaker 1: weren't in on the Josh Bell sweepstakes, but maybe Arizona
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Speaker 1: outbid them when they had Christian Walker go down. But
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Speaker 1: Dessenso's risen through the minor leagues extremely fast. He was
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Speaker 1: drafted just in twenty twenty two out of Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: and so he was actually a really late pick in
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Speaker 1: that draft too in the twelfth round, as he was
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Speaker 1: almost like a Mark Reynolds sort of like build or
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Speaker 1: like a right handed Joey Gallo where it's just all power. Really,
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Speaker 1: you're not sure, especially coming out the college level, how
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Speaker 1: that bat is going to translate to wood from metal
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Speaker 1: and then lots of strikeouts. But he battled some injuries
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Speaker 1: earlier in the season and has flown through the minor
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Speaker 1: league system as the Astros have had lots of belief
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Speaker 1: in him. He hit six homers across three stops coming
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Speaker 1: back on in his rehab over thirty eight games, and
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Speaker 1: eleven of those came at TRIPLEA, where he hit three
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Speaker 1: ninety one, four seventy two, seven thirty nine with four
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Speaker 1: homers over eleven games. That is just absurd that he's
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Speaker 1: already picked up his major first major league hit, so
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Speaker 1: beat Kobe Mayo to that, as he got a single
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Speaker 1: in a double in a afternoon game today. This is
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Speaker 1: one where I had always been aware of Desenso over
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Speaker 1: the past couple of years, just in terms of like
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Speaker 1: this really homer forward profile. I just didn't think the
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Speaker 1: Astros would move him through the system as quick as
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Speaker 1: there have been murmurings how much. They've loved him, and
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Speaker 1: lots of just the kind of ford or the public
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Speaker 1: facing data has been solid, like the overall prospect ratings.
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Speaker 1: He's got forty plus on fangrafts from Eric log Logginghanngen,
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Speaker 1: and that puts a seventy on his raw power. So
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Speaker 1: Desenso is certainly a huge power source here, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just seeing what sort of leagues are you maybe taking
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Speaker 1: a gamble on him and trying to add him because
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Speaker 1: he has a pretty clear path to playing time in Houston.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm probably approaching the Sinzo with a
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Speaker 2: little bit of trepidation here. I'm you know, it's I
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Speaker 2: look at both ways like he's really been rushed through,
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Speaker 2: not from an age perspective because he is twenty four,
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Speaker 2: but at the same time, like he doesn't have that
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Speaker 2: many games under his belt in the minors, and he
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Speaker 2: went all the way from you know, basically double A
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Speaker 2: with twenty two games this year eleven a triple A
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Speaker 2: and here he is, and the results the last two
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Speaker 2: years have been kind of a little bit jumping over
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Speaker 2: to place there. The power is it's hard to tell
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Speaker 2: if it's there. There's just enough sample size, but yet
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Speaker 2: the Astros who tend to like not believe in any
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Speaker 2: of their minor leaguers believe in them, and so I'm
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Speaker 2: very torn with that. And so I'm I'm probably sitting
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Speaker 2: on the sidelines here watching just to see how he plays,
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Speaker 2: because I do feel like he didn't get as much
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Speaker 2: season as I would like to see, and he does
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Speaker 2: have a pretty extreme flyball approach, and so I think
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Speaker 2: that it's it could be a little feast or famine
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Speaker 2: here with Descenzo. So I'm gonna let things play. I
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Speaker 2: think he might have a little bit rougher of a
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Speaker 2: go than somebody like a Mayo, who's definitely more rounded,
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Speaker 2: got some more games under his belt. Again, we're talking
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Speaker 2: about a guy that's got a total of eleven games
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Speaker 2: at Triple A and total of eighty five at Double
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Speaker 2: A the last sea last two seasons, so less than
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Speaker 2: one hundred games above a ball. Yeah, I'd like to
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Speaker 2: see a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think if he's coming cheap in
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Speaker 1: Dynasty and you can easily acquire him, I'm certainly buying
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Speaker 1: up those lottery ticket shares just because, like, if he
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Speaker 1: is the answer to first base in Houston, and even
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Speaker 1: if he bats like eighth or ninth and can just
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Speaker 1: stick and you know, hit maybe like two twenty two
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Speaker 1: thirty with really good power. I mean, I think that's
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Speaker 1: really huge considering how young he is and given the
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Speaker 1: raw power in that bat. I will take a gamble
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Speaker 1: on that. And I'm really leaning a lot on what
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Speaker 1: you said in terms of, like, I don't Houston really
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Speaker 1: loves him. I don't know what it is in the
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Speaker 1: profile that really stands out to them and makes them
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Speaker 1: really salivate over what he can do. But they've clearly
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Speaker 1: been into Descenzo for since then. He was drafted in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and moved him through the system. It
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Speaker 1: looks like he was somebody that they just kind of
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Speaker 1: plucked out a thin air, even though he did play
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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten for college. It's just I don't
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Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to get into some of these rooms
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Speaker 1: we talked about, like last week with the trade deadline,
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Speaker 1: just to see exactly what they have on Dessenzo, because honestly,
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Speaker 1: it's starting to get me a little bit excited. So
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Speaker 1: if you are in dynasty leagues out there where he
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Speaker 1: might still be easy to acquire or not owned, I'm
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Speaker 1: certainly taking a flyer. Okay, we've got another call up,
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Speaker 1: and this one is somebody who we've been raving about
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Speaker 1: all summer as he arrives in Arizona in place of
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Speaker 1: Gabriel Moreno hitting the aisle with a groin injury, and
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Speaker 1: that is Aging Delcastillo. He is getting called up in
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Speaker 1: Arizona after slashing three nineteen four h three six oh eight.
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Speaker 1: That's good for one forty four WRC plus with twenty
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Speaker 1: four homers and one hundred games at Triple A. That
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Speaker 1: is a little bit PCL eighted, but still the one
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Speaker 1: forty four WRC plus. Lets you know how superb of
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Speaker 1: a hitter del Castillo has been this year. Comes with
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Speaker 1: catcher eligibility, probably play some mix of catcher DH and
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Speaker 1: honestly maybe even a little first base with Christian Walker
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Speaker 1: being out. But Josh Bella is now around in Arizona.
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Speaker 1: So what are you doing here at del Castillo because
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Speaker 1: you've got two weeks with him, and what depth of
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Speaker 1: league do you think you're going to add him in,
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Speaker 1: especially given you know the need for a catcher out
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Speaker 1: there in the in the fantasy landscape.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, any any two catcher league, I am absolutely picking
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Speaker 2: up del Castillo on them for sure. In a dynasty
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Speaker 2: type league, if he's still sitting out there, I'm definitely
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Speaker 2: taking a gamble on him. And then if you're sitting
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Speaker 2: kind of with the new your back quarter of the
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Speaker 2: top twelve catchers, I'd be willing to take kind of
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Speaker 2: a flyer on him. I don't think he's come up
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Speaker 2: like hitting out of the gate. He's not starting. He
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Speaker 2: didn't get the start tonight on his first first game up,
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Speaker 2: So I think they're gonna kind of feel their way,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not sure if he's up there really just
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Speaker 2: for backing up until Moreno's back, or if they're actually
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Speaker 2: gonna let him play. If I knew he was gonna play,
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Speaker 2: i'd be a little bit more bullish on him. But
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Speaker 2: because I do love the profile. I actually just wrote
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Speaker 2: about him two weeks ago, talked about some of the
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Speaker 2: darts you throw out prospects at this time of the
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Speaker 2: year of who's gonna get called up, and I'm basically
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Speaker 2: I'm like this, this is probably the biggest dart throw
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Speaker 2: because he guy Moreno there and lo and behold he
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Speaker 2: got hurt and here he is, And so I really
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Speaker 2: like Castio's profile. He has your point flown a little
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Speaker 2: bit under under the radar. He's not don't check in
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Speaker 2: as like a top ten prospect for the Dbacks. But
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Speaker 2: the guy just hits. The guy just hits, and there's
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Speaker 2: really no question that the power is going to translate.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's he's been on a thirty five homer
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Speaker 2: pace in the miners and yes, it's Reno, I get it.
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Speaker 2: But it's still to hit thirty five homers anywhere, it's
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Speaker 2: it's impressive. And if he has that catcher eligibility, I
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Speaker 2: really really like it. So tentatively optimistic here, I'm twelve teamers.
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Speaker 2: I'm willing to take a gamble if I got something
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Speaker 2: in the back end that I can expand and I
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Speaker 2: need a catcher. I just to your point, it's probably
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Speaker 2: a only a few weeks here that we get a chance.
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Speaker 2: As you know, it's uh Moreno has has a great strain,
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Speaker 2: and that could be two weeks, it could be six.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to know where we're at right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I'm on board with you in
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Speaker 1: terms of the assessment, because a two catcher league will
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Speaker 1: put you, like in the twenty to twenty five ish
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Speaker 1: top catchers and The way that I do this actually
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Speaker 1: for my waiver Wire articles is I use all the
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Speaker 1: CBS data because it gives a pretty good feel of
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Speaker 1: like home League, Dynasty League, Expert leagues there. It's where
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Speaker 1: they also used to run tout Wars back in the
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Speaker 1: day before they moved out Wars to its own, sort
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Speaker 1: of like Jinky platform, like they just like run it themselves.
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Speaker 1: But that ownership rate would put you right around the
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Speaker 1: range of like Elias Diaz, loose campusanokperwiz Bow Naylor, Mitch Garver.
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Speaker 1: So certainly, yeah, if you're in that range of the
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Speaker 1: catcher pool, you can't go wrong. I think paid picking
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Speaker 1: up Adrian del Castillo, although I will say that like
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Speaker 1: Kawashioka is still sitting out there like in tons of leagues,
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Speaker 1: if he's still there, pick up Pi Gashioka maybe over
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Speaker 1: del Castillo. But I think that if you are really
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Speaker 1: looking for some lightning in a bottle and are tired
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Speaker 1: with the likes of a bon nailor in a in
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Speaker 1: a two catcher league like that, certainly del Castillo can
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Speaker 1: be your man. And I think anything more shallow than that.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching del Castillo right now and then, But if
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Speaker 1: he starts getting playing time, gets a couple of good
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Speaker 1: at bats. I think he could shoot easily up into
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Speaker 1: like the fifteen ish range, like top.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen, twelve, Well, fifteen feels about right if you know
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Speaker 2: he's getting playing time. So it's it hurts to hear
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Speaker 2: Mitch Garver that far down, Darling, we thought he was.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, for.
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Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, Seattle, that home park will eat anybody alive,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure, even Garf Sauce. Okay, But we're gonna
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Speaker 1: stick in Arizona with our next piece of news, and
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Speaker 1: that is Paul Seawald is being removed from the closer
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Speaker 1: role there. So this is a jumbled mess because there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of good relievers now in Arizona after
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline, as they picked up aj Puck and
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Speaker 1: added Dylan Floro in separate trades, I believe, right, maybe
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Speaker 1: if you want to check there for me, yeah, which
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Speaker 1: is no separate although no way, Dylan Flora wasn't on
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Speaker 1: Miami before that, my bad, he was on Washington. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is where my confusion was coming from. But it
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Speaker 1: is a loaded bullpen now and there's all sorts of
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Speaker 1: You can just go to the roster resource and you
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Speaker 1: can see like the holds and the winds and the
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Speaker 1: saves are all different colors, and they're just everyone's lit
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Speaker 1: up with colors in the bullpen right now. Is People
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Speaker 1: in the mix for the poul Sea Wall job currently
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Speaker 1: include Justin Martinez, who got the save actually this afternoon
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Speaker 1: against the Guardians, but he was set up by Joe Mantiply,
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Speaker 1: Ryan Thompson, Kevin Ginkle. We've also got Aj Puck, the
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Speaker 1: aforemissioned doing Floro in this mess. Paul See Walt's still
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Speaker 1: hanging around, so like, maybe that can be your horse?
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Speaker 1: Who is your horse in this race? Because I think
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Speaker 1: this has become one of the greatest debates in our
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Speaker 1: rasball chat because everybody's wrong. It seems like.
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Speaker 2: This is a tough one. This is an absolutely tough one.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a one A and one B because
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Speaker 2: I really like both of them. My one A is
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Speaker 2: AJ Puck. I think with how dominant he's been the
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Speaker 2: last forty five days, ish, I think Puck just looks
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Speaker 2: the best of all of them. But then I've got
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Speaker 2: a spot soft spot for Kevin Ginkle. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: if it's the name Ginkle or if it is like
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Speaker 2: the guy's been in Arizona and just solid for the
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Speaker 2: last three maybe four years. I have to look to
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Speaker 2: see how far back, But it just feels like he's
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Speaker 2: always that next guy up and then get few saves,
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Speaker 2: and they bring a new guy in and the guy falters, giggle,
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Speaker 2: gets a few saves. Like it feels like he's he's
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Speaker 2: always there. He just doesn't blow you away. And so
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Speaker 2: why don't go a steady eddie and give it back
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Speaker 2: to gingkle So but I feel like there's not a
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Speaker 2: right answer here, Like I'm avoiding this bullpen like the plague.
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Speaker 2: If anybody I'm acquiring Seawall because they've invested in him
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Speaker 2: and he's we know he's a great pitcher. Something's just off.
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Speaker 2: He'll he'll get right. So maybe I got one A,
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Speaker 2: one B and one C.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that was a failure of an answer for your question.
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Speaker 1: Really, what he really walks that pack?
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Speaker 2: Give me half the bullpen if you could.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I am, I do think that, like if
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Speaker 1: you are desperate for saves. This team is really good
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Speaker 1: in Arizona. In July they went seventeen and eight and
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Speaker 1: have worked their way back into the wild card. That
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Speaker 1: it is an impressive team. There's gonna be more wins,
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Speaker 1: I think coming down the pike, as they've just been
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Speaker 1: playing really, really well. So if you are in a
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Speaker 1: situation where you're in like that Roto league where honestly
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Speaker 1: a handful of saves like two, three, four saves make
19:06
Speaker 1: a difference, try to rank you know, these six players?
19:10
Speaker 1: Is it was it six that I rattled off? Let
19:12
Speaker 1: me see how many it was again? We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
19:19
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call I'm gonna throw a mantiply in there too.
19:23
Speaker 1: List them in like the terms of like what you want,
19:25
Speaker 1: and use as many roster spots as you need to
19:28
Speaker 1: acquire them, and just kind of like hope it sorts
19:30
Speaker 1: itself out because those points in the Rhoto standings can
19:34
Speaker 1: be huge. Ginkle's my guy here. I'm I'm making him
19:37
Speaker 1: number one, and I'm not even gonna go b and
19:40
Speaker 1: see because I'm gonna stand strong. Part of it is
19:43
Speaker 1: just the overall body of work for Ginkle over the
19:48
Speaker 1: past month. He's really turned the corner in terms of
19:52
Speaker 1: uh rounding into a strikeout artist along with being a
19:55
Speaker 1: solid reliever as a four fifteen era with a one
19:58
Speaker 1: eighty six FIP that is supported by a twelve and
20:02
Speaker 1: a half k nine eighteen strikeouts to one walk. And
20:06
Speaker 1: we saw what Kevin Ginkle could be down the stretch
20:09
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year. I think that is where
20:11
Speaker 1: Arizona turns, even though he seems to be pitching a
20:15
Speaker 1: little bit more like a high leverage situation. I know
20:17
Speaker 1: that this bullpen in Arizona's just gonna drive us nutty
20:21
Speaker 1: for the next couple of weeks. But I do think
20:23
Speaker 1: that there's lots of opportunities. So pick your guy and
20:26
Speaker 1: hopefully you can pick up a couple saves out there.
20:29
Speaker 1: All right. Next transaction we have is a call up
20:33
Speaker 1: slash a little bit of like an ile stent, but
20:35
Speaker 1: that is in Saint Louis Victor Scott. The second has
20:39
Speaker 1: been recalled as Michael Cianni's hitting the injured list with
20:42
Speaker 1: an oblique and they were covering this a little bit
20:46
Speaker 1: in the media before Scott kind of came up, and
20:49
Speaker 1: I was actually I heard it on the game before
20:53
Speaker 1: we started recording here, that there's a tweak that he
20:57
Speaker 1: made in his swing between the series against the Iowa
21:03
Speaker 1: Cubs and the Columbus Clippers. It was actually just at
21:07
Speaker 1: Columbus Clippers game this past weekend, but they it sounded
21:11
Speaker 1: like Ryan Ludwick, the batting coach, down Triple A, added
21:14
Speaker 1: a like an extra kick and extra step in terms
21:18
Speaker 1: of the rhythm of Victor Scott's swing. And Scott's been
21:23
Speaker 1: raving about it as well, because in that stretch of
21:25
Speaker 1: nine games down in Triple A, even though he's been
21:28
Speaker 1: batting two nineteen on the season, those that nine game stretch,
21:31
Speaker 1: he pushed it to three to zero, six, popped three homers,
21:34
Speaker 1: put up a triple as well, and just like it
21:38
Speaker 1: sounded like things were clicking again to where we were
21:40
Speaker 1: at with Victor Scott in the spring and kind of
21:42
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year. Came up immediately hit a
21:46
Speaker 1: homer in his first game against a lefty two off
21:48
Speaker 1: of Jeff Springs. So I think he's going to play
21:51
Speaker 1: a lot in the sort of Michael Sianni role that
21:55
Speaker 1: he had before he went on the aisle, and that's hey,
21:58
Speaker 1: Victor Scott plays some good center field defense, bat ninth
22:01
Speaker 1: and see what you can do. So because of that,
22:05
Speaker 1: I'm kind of back in on Victor Scott am I
22:08
Speaker 1: being a little bit unreasonable trying to pursue him in
22:11
Speaker 1: any fantasy realms out there.
22:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't think you're gonna be unreasonable.
22:15
Speaker 2: I think what you know, his little cup of Tea
22:19
Speaker 2: told us is that Victor Scott may, he may be
22:21
Speaker 2: a little overmatch still at the major league level. He's
22:24
Speaker 2: still got to figure things out. But the potential, the
22:27
Speaker 2: ceiling here with a guy like Victor Scott, that speed
22:30
Speaker 2: is just I mean, only there's one guy in the
22:33
Speaker 2: majors right now is showing that kind of speed in
22:34
Speaker 2: this Eli de la Cruz. And there's no comparison. Don't
22:38
Speaker 2: get you know, don't get any crazy ideas here. There's
22:40
Speaker 2: not a comparison. But if you're in the the hunt
22:43
Speaker 2: right now and you need steals, you have to pick
22:46
Speaker 2: up Victor Scott. You absolutely have to pick him up
22:50
Speaker 2: because he is the lottery ticket that you can potentially
22:53
Speaker 2: cash in. Because if he's playing, yeah he might hit
22:56
Speaker 2: two fifty, he might hit two forty, but if he's playing,
22:59
Speaker 2: he's gonna run. And the Cardinals generally don't have a
23:02
Speaker 2: problem running. Maybe don't always have the fastest guys, but
23:05
Speaker 2: from an approach perspective, you know, just think about Tommy Edmonds,
23:09
Speaker 2: they shipped out. They let him run wild just just
23:12
Speaker 2: last few years here, so like they don't really have
23:14
Speaker 2: a problem running. So I do think Victure Scott's worth
23:18
Speaker 2: drinking the kool aid for. I think it's still a
23:21
Speaker 2: dart throw, to be honest, but it's not one of
23:25
Speaker 2: those that you can wait. He's absolutely gonna get picked
23:28
Speaker 2: up by somebody because if it works, it's a much
23:33
Speaker 2: higher payback than a guy like Tazenzio or you know,
23:37
Speaker 2: even del Castillo, because of the impact he can make
23:40
Speaker 2: on a single category.
23:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm totally on board. Especially I hope that like
23:46
Speaker 1: he takes a little bit of what Sianni was doing
23:48
Speaker 1: as well before in terms of just like also using
23:51
Speaker 1: the bunt as a tool, and just if he's able
23:54
Speaker 1: to get on base. Mason Wynn has been on fire
23:57
Speaker 1: this summer. That getting him in front of Mason win,
24:00
Speaker 1: you can really see where Scott could be an impact
24:04
Speaker 1: player down the stretch. Okay, well that's gonna wrap us
24:07
Speaker 1: up for the I mean, unless you're Paul Sewald. The
24:11
Speaker 1: good news. So let's get into some of those injuries.
24:14
Speaker 1: I hinted at this one because we definitely cursed him
24:18
Speaker 1: last week. In terms of, like, it does feel like
24:21
Speaker 1: huge injuries happened immediately after we record our podcast, and
24:25
Speaker 1: that held true last week as Mike Trout goes down
24:30
Speaker 1: with another meniscus tear. And so it's also a very
24:35
Speaker 1: strange way that this kind of one all unfolded in
24:38
Speaker 1: terms of Mike Trout was making his rehab stance, he
24:41
Speaker 1: felt some pain in the knee. They scanned it, said
24:44
Speaker 1: it was scar tissue tearing, and send him back out there.
24:48
Speaker 1: He was still having pain in the knee. They looked
24:50
Speaker 1: at it again, Oh whoops, it's a meniscus tear in
24:53
Speaker 1: the same left knee that he already had the meniscus tear.
24:56
Speaker 1: I'm not terribly surprised. Again, Like, I go back to
25:00
Speaker 1: this a lot in terms of like seeing the Derrick
25:02
Speaker 1: Rose career like play out, as I had those Bulls
25:05
Speaker 1: tickets here in Chicago, and this happened to Rose too,
25:09
Speaker 1: where like he had a meniscus tear and then like
25:12
Speaker 1: the other part of the meniscus tour. So it does
25:14
Speaker 1: happen a lot, I think. And where Mike Trout is at,
25:18
Speaker 1: he's thirty three. Now he's gonna wrap up this season
25:21
Speaker 1: with a still not stellar but fantastic one thirty six.
25:24
Speaker 1: WRC plus says he gave us ten home runs in
25:27
Speaker 1: the twenty nine games he played, hit two twenty with
25:31
Speaker 1: a three twenty five OBP and five forty one slug
25:35
Speaker 1: It was a pretty solid year for Mike Trout, but
25:38
Speaker 1: the injuries have just really really significantly affected him since
25:42
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and even back in twenty twenty he
25:46
Speaker 1: didn't play like the entire time, and into twenty nineteen,
25:51
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen he had a thumb injury. It's been a
25:53
Speaker 1: rough go for the past eight years now, and so
25:57
Speaker 1: I'm just feeling out, where are you drafting Mike Trout
26:01
Speaker 1: coming into twenty twenty five.
26:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, coming in to twenty twenty five, it's it's gonna
26:07
Speaker 2: be tough. You're kind of treating him maybe kind of
26:11
Speaker 2: like Christian Yelich going into this year, like a guy
26:14
Speaker 2: with a lot of potential and you just kind of
26:15
Speaker 2: seem to not be able to stay healthy. And I'm
26:20
Speaker 2: not gonna say, like I kind of treat Aaron Jones
26:22
Speaker 2: the same way, but I think he's broken out of
26:24
Speaker 2: that enough that I can't say the same thing at
26:27
Speaker 2: this point in time. But I think you're you're looking maybe, man,
26:32
Speaker 2: it feels wrong to say, but like in the double
26:34
Speaker 2: digit rounds at this point, maybe not quite that far,
26:38
Speaker 2: but it's like you're playing, Yeah, you're planning for like
26:42
Speaker 2: a maybe half a season, but he's been really, really
26:46
Speaker 2: good in that half season. Yeah, And so that that's
26:48
Speaker 2: what's making it really tough here. So if you're looking
26:52
Speaker 2: for Mike Trout next year, and don't get me wrong,
26:54
Speaker 2: I love to own the guy because the potential is there.
26:57
Speaker 2: You're drafting a safe team at the beginning, you're really
27:00
Speaker 2: looking at those guys that are always in the lineup
27:04
Speaker 2: there every every day, and then you're starting to take
27:06
Speaker 2: some gambles down down the path where it's like, okay, yeah,
27:09
Speaker 2: I picked Mark Mike Trout and he misses some time,
27:12
Speaker 2: but that doesn't it's not. My team's not built on that.
27:14
Speaker 2: But if you're picking up some of those other guys
27:16
Speaker 2: like a Yellich and a Judge and guys like that
27:18
Speaker 2: that have more injury history, Chisholm, whoever it is, right,
27:22
Speaker 2: then then you have to be a little bit more
27:24
Speaker 2: cautious about investing Mike Trout. So it is tough, especially
27:28
Speaker 2: on Mike Trout's birthday when we're recording, it is Mike
27:32
Speaker 2: Trout's birthday today, And uh, I couldn't I look to
27:35
Speaker 2: see what time he was born, to see, you know
27:37
Speaker 2: how close we really were here. I couldn't find the
27:40
Speaker 2: birth certificate. But I, yeah, this is disappointing, one of
27:46
Speaker 2: the best ever, and I just I just hope he
27:49
Speaker 2: gets like one more full season at some point here.
27:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, so you've got him going maybe, like
27:56
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the earliest round you think you would
27:59
Speaker 1: take him?
27:59
Speaker 2: Then I'm probably starting to think about him like nine
28:07
Speaker 2: ten right now in the market's gonna take him. I
28:11
Speaker 2: think the market's gonna be very, very all over the
28:13
Speaker 2: place on him. But I think the market's gonna actually
28:15
Speaker 2: try to drop him even further, I say, I do
28:19
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, think about this year. I'm trying
28:21
Speaker 2: to remember exactly where he went and drafts this year.
28:24
Speaker 2: But it was a lot later then you. Then you
28:28
Speaker 2: probably think you're you'll pull it up here before I
28:31
Speaker 2: before I'm able to get there. But he was going
28:34
Speaker 2: quite a bit later than you realize this, even just
28:37
Speaker 2: this year. And I think that it's the double down
28:39
Speaker 2: effect next year, So I think he's gonna be slipping
28:43
Speaker 2: into thirteen fourteen at times next year because I think
28:48
Speaker 2: people just are gonna trust him, except for there's gonna
28:52
Speaker 2: be the leagues where like he gets auto drafted at
28:54
Speaker 2: the top of the queue type of thing. So I
28:58
Speaker 2: don't know, did you find this ADP for for this year?
29:01
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I was looking up the so I
29:04
Speaker 1: was asking asking this as well because Todd Zola, who
29:08
Speaker 1: has been I mean, he's in the Fantasy Sports like
29:12
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and has won an NFS NFBC like
29:17
Speaker 1: main championship event too, I think. And he ran this
29:22
Speaker 1: poll just the other day and seventy percent of people
29:26
Speaker 1: said top one fifty. So like, I think it's going
29:29
Speaker 1: to be tough finding the market because I think it's
29:32
Speaker 1: kind of the classic like you only need one guy
29:34
Speaker 1: who's in there that's or one person who's in there
29:36
Speaker 1: that is in on Mike Trout still and looking especially
29:40
Speaker 1: at those rate stats, and it does depend, I think
29:43
Speaker 1: a little bit on where the projections are gonna be,
29:46
Speaker 1: because the projections will probably not give Mike Trout a
29:50
Speaker 1: full season, but they're going to give him quite a
29:53
Speaker 1: bit of a season, I think. And once you put
29:55
Speaker 1: that into your auction calculator, like it's going to kick
29:58
Speaker 1: out a pretty good value, and I think somebody you know,
30:01
Speaker 1: will work off of that and just also still believe
30:05
Speaker 1: in my trout. Like I said, he hit ten homers
30:08
Speaker 1: in the twenty nine games he played. It's not like
30:09
Speaker 1: any it's not there. Yeah, And especially you look at
30:13
Speaker 1: that ballpark in Anaheim is one of the top like
30:16
Speaker 1: three in terms of being a better friendly ballpark. It's
30:20
Speaker 1: a great place to hit. But I think I am
30:24
Speaker 1: on board with you. I think I don't touch him
30:26
Speaker 1: until like post one fifty and then.
30:29
Speaker 2: It would be around thirteen.
30:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, so like yeah, I'm maybe even like more like
30:35
Speaker 1: one twenty then. So like essentially like the tennis area,
30:39
Speaker 1: where you've built out a lineup for the most part,
30:43
Speaker 1: you know you've got like the foundational piece of your lineup.
30:45
Speaker 1: You've got a closer, maybe even two, you've got one
30:50
Speaker 1: or two starting pitchers, and you're really just kind of
30:52
Speaker 1: like looking at hey, like if I do put in
30:56
Speaker 1: my trout here. That's especially just part of like the
31:00
Speaker 1: the draft, where I mean you can just look at
31:03
Speaker 1: like Nolan Jones was going in that area this year
31:05
Speaker 1: and he's been a total zero, so like you can
31:08
Speaker 1: take a total zero there and still be competitive. So yeah,
31:12
Speaker 1: I think I'm on board with you, but I just
31:14
Speaker 1: I do feel like every draft you get into there's
31:16
Speaker 1: gonna be one person person he pushed it.
31:18
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be like if you look at
31:20
Speaker 2: the spread on the men and the max pick Mike Trout,
31:23
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked next year if he doesn't
31:24
Speaker 2: have the largest spread, because it's like somebody's gonna take
31:28
Speaker 2: him in the fifth round, like probably because if I
31:32
Speaker 2: looked as adp was about fifth round this year, and
31:34
Speaker 2: so somebody's gonna take him fifth or or something like that.
31:37
Speaker 2: And then then another draft, he's gonna go on the
31:38
Speaker 2: eighteenth just because like the whole he'll hold like nope,
31:42
Speaker 2: we're out in the c I and then you get
31:43
Speaker 2: the kind of bandwag and go it right where everybody's
31:45
Speaker 2: like I'm out on the guy's like nobody's gonna be
31:47
Speaker 2: the guy to pick pick him and regret it. So
31:50
Speaker 2: you're right like he is. Right when you're starting to
31:52
Speaker 2: take those gambles and hoping for the guy to be something,
31:56
Speaker 2: that's when I'm starting to consider consider Mike Trout, Okay.
32:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see how that all works out, and
32:02
Speaker 1: hopefully he gets back into the spring fully healthy and
32:06
Speaker 1: just like looking good. Because yeah, I agree that, like
32:08
Speaker 1: I want at least one pretty more good ride with
32:12
Speaker 1: Mike Troud, like a really good season because especially just
32:15
Speaker 1: to like really relive the old days and push him
32:18
Speaker 1: back up to like kind of inner circle Hall of
32:21
Speaker 1: Famer level if he can get back up above the
32:23
Speaker 1: ninety Fangrafts War total. He's at eighty five right now.
32:27
Speaker 1: So just like it's just sad the way that's tailed
32:31
Speaker 1: off considering how spectacular the start was.
32:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's I mean, it's not a same comparison,
32:38
Speaker 2: but it's like King Griffy Junior type thing, yeah right,
32:40
Speaker 2: which just like the world is your oyster type of
32:44
Speaker 2: thing from baseball perspective. And then it just the injuries.
32:48
Speaker 2: The knees just didn't hold up.
32:51
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the next injury that we've got is we
32:54
Speaker 1: just alluded to it earlier with the Kobe Mayo call up,
32:56
Speaker 1: and that is in fielder for the Baltimore Orioles and
33:00
Speaker 1: Westburg went down on that same day right after the podcast,
33:03
Speaker 1: Like in between that, like weird space that he went
33:08
Speaker 1: down with a fractured hand from a hip by pitch,
33:11
Speaker 1: so he could make it back by the end of season,
33:15
Speaker 1: which I think would be great for Westburg owners out there.
33:18
Speaker 1: Actually I picked him up in a league where he
33:20
Speaker 1: got dropped just to try to stash him for the
33:23
Speaker 1: stretch run in a head to head league. Is I mean,
33:27
Speaker 1: he's been incredible this year with a one twenty nine
33:29
Speaker 1: WRC plus eighteen homers in six deals, slashing two sixty nine,
33:34
Speaker 1: three seventeen four ninety seven. What do you think Westburg? Like,
33:40
Speaker 1: do you think he can get back in time before
33:42
Speaker 1: the end of season and maybe provide some value down
33:45
Speaker 1: the stretch? Any reason maybe not to believe that narrative?
33:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think he can get back. But
33:53
Speaker 2: I think what the Orioles you're gonna be doing, is
33:56
Speaker 2: they're really much gonna be looking for trying to get
33:59
Speaker 2: him back for the playoffs? Is I think, really what
34:01
Speaker 2: they're gonna be looking for. So you know, they're twenty
34:05
Speaker 2: games of a five hundred, they're clearly in the driver's
34:07
Speaker 2: seat of a wild card birth potentially the division division win.
34:14
Speaker 2: And if if they I mean, they've got holiday up
34:17
Speaker 2: they've got Mayo up, They've I mean they've got a
34:19
Speaker 2: really good team. I mean got Eloy Jimenez for crying
34:22
Speaker 2: out loud. Sorry, we haven't thrown any sock shade yet tonight.
34:27
Speaker 2: But I think their their goal is to get him
34:31
Speaker 2: healthy for the playoffs, and so they're not gonna rush
34:34
Speaker 2: him back. They're not gonna they don't want to get
34:36
Speaker 2: in a situation where goes on rehab things are a
34:38
Speaker 2: little sore, I have to shut him down. So I
34:40
Speaker 2: think they're gonna be ultra conscious with him, and you
34:43
Speaker 2: see him back in the last week and a half
34:46
Speaker 2: of the season is kind of what where I would
34:48
Speaker 2: see them kind of trying to push to to get
34:50
Speaker 2: him back. There hasn't been a lot of news on
34:54
Speaker 2: the injury, so I'm going pure conjecture here of how
34:56
Speaker 2: I would approach it with him. But your point like,
35:00
Speaker 2: I would still pick him up if if he's available,
35:02
Speaker 2: you can pick him up, pick him up, because that's
35:05
Speaker 2: a freebie. That's a free starter right right there. But
35:08
Speaker 2: I would not be looking to necessarily try to acquire
35:11
Speaker 2: him if you still have a trade deadline out there,
35:13
Speaker 2: I would be looking. If this is a dynasty format
35:17
Speaker 2: and you've got a team towards the front of the
35:19
Speaker 2: league trying to make a run for the Roto Championship
35:22
Speaker 2: or something like that. But unless head to head, that's
35:25
Speaker 2: the time to acquire, Like if you've got a you know,
35:28
Speaker 2: really good starting pitcher or something like that that you
35:30
Speaker 2: can flip and try to bring in a you know,
35:33
Speaker 2: a young Westburg, gonna be a great lot d up
35:36
Speaker 2: going forward in Baltimore. From a dynasty perspective, this is
35:38
Speaker 2: not the type of injury I'm concerned with. It's a
35:41
Speaker 2: hand pressure to hand. It happens, he'll be back as
35:45
Speaker 2: good as ever next year.
35:47
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, and I mean you put in the eladrig
35:50
Speaker 1: but through twelve plate appearances plus tonight, let me add
35:54
Speaker 1: in tonight. So he got another hit tonight. He's at
35:58
Speaker 1: fifteen play appearances with come on, fangrafts load fast enough
36:04
Speaker 1: for me to do this live with seven hits, So
36:08
Speaker 1: he's you know, actually good. Who knew that? Like, you
36:12
Speaker 1: get him out of Chicago and give him like a
36:14
Speaker 1: real training staff that the owner is paid for, and
36:17
Speaker 1: you could keep Eloy healthy. So they're totally picking up
36:20
Speaker 1: that extension, aren't they? On Eloy and he's just going.
36:23
Speaker 2: To go off it like it does feel like that's
36:26
Speaker 2: what's good.
36:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely happening in Baltimore. Well, we're gonna stick in
36:31
Speaker 1: Baltimore with the next injury, and that is Grayson Rodriguez
36:35
Speaker 1: going down with the latin injury. Just placed on the
36:37
Speaker 1: IL this afternoon. So that's pretty concerning if you're Grayson
36:41
Speaker 1: Rodriguez owner out there. And I'm starting to feel a
36:45
Speaker 1: little bit unsteady about just the overall trajectory of like
36:49
Speaker 1: what Rodriguez has been over the past couple of years.
36:51
Speaker 1: I mean, the the work has been pretty solid this year,
36:54
Speaker 1: He's pitched one hundred and sixteen and two thirds innings
36:56
Speaker 1: to a three eighty sixty ARRA. But now he's battled
37:00
Speaker 1: like shoulder injuries as well, and just kind of he
37:02
Speaker 1: does seem to pick up these bruises and bumps, and
37:07
Speaker 1: I do wonder like he's always kind of had all
37:11
Speaker 1: that coming through his minor league like track record, and
37:14
Speaker 1: the Orioles have tried to keep him pretty much, you know,
37:21
Speaker 1: treated him with kids gloves in terms of like trying
37:23
Speaker 1: to make sure that they could keep him healthy, and
37:26
Speaker 1: it's never clearly like worked.
37:29
Speaker 2: I don't think.
37:30
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying to look back through all these
37:31
Speaker 1: numbers in terms of like the innings, and you can
37:34
Speaker 1: see it in twenty two, like twenty two is when
37:36
Speaker 1: he was battling I think some of those shoulder problems.
37:40
Speaker 1: And I think this is just concerning for me overall,
37:44
Speaker 1: because I was starting to, like, in my mind for
37:47
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, be prepared to move Grace and Rodriguez
37:50
Speaker 1: maybe into that tier where you have to draft him
37:53
Speaker 1: as a number one starting pitcher, because even going into
37:56
Speaker 1: this year, you had to draft him as like a
37:58
Speaker 1: two to three. And I didn't mind the strategy of
38:00
Speaker 1: kind of taking him and another number two like maybe
38:04
Speaker 1: like a Taj Bradley or something to be able to
38:06
Speaker 1: work your way through not getting an ace. But I'm
38:10
Speaker 1: a little bit unsure of that going forward. What do
38:12
Speaker 1: you think I'm obviously asking the injury guy here about this,
38:16
Speaker 1: but what do you think about Brayson Rodriguez is maybe
38:19
Speaker 1: like kind of long term value and whether or not
38:23
Speaker 1: you're concerned with some of these injuries that keep creeping up.
38:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say any're right. I'm the risk taker from injuries.
38:30
Speaker 2: I'm a little contentative, but I'm not out. I you
38:34
Speaker 2: know if in the part of the reason I say
38:36
Speaker 2: that and I and I do fully own I feel
38:38
Speaker 2: like I'm talking about Noahs cinderguard right now, because it's like,
38:41
Speaker 2: if you look at the profile of Brayson Rodriguez for
38:46
Speaker 2: first few seasons, I feel like you're looking at cinderguard,
38:48
Speaker 2: which is like high strikeout, low walks, good ground balls,
38:52
Speaker 2: high velocity, like all these things like this, this guy
38:56
Speaker 2: hits all the marks you look for, and then injuries
38:59
Speaker 2: just to derail it. And I'm not there yet with Grayson,
39:01
Speaker 2: Like he's had some nagging things to your point, they've
39:04
Speaker 2: had the kid gloves, like he's won one of two
39:06
Speaker 2: pass Like they take the kid gloves off and just
39:09
Speaker 2: let him go deep in the games and he gets
39:10
Speaker 2: stronger and stronger, or he just he just never gets
39:14
Speaker 2: off the off the hill, right, And that's I'm still
39:18
Speaker 2: willing to give it to him. But the problem you're
39:20
Speaker 2: starting to run into is that he's so good that
39:24
Speaker 2: it's hard to invest him as your number one. And
39:26
Speaker 2: that's I think it to kind of hold his value back.
39:28
Speaker 2: And he's gonna hold him in that probably top fifteen
39:31
Speaker 2: range for starters, just because you can't be fully confident
39:35
Speaker 2: he's gonna get that. I do like what you're talking
39:38
Speaker 2: about those like he's at the back end of your
39:40
Speaker 2: you know, starting your number One's like if I'm if
39:43
Speaker 2: if I'm tunings like a high end two. If I
39:45
Speaker 2: you're like two high end twos and Grayson's one of them,
39:48
Speaker 2: I'm really happy about that because then I have a
39:50
Speaker 2: potential to have two once. Like, because it's not a
39:52
Speaker 2: skill thing with Grayson. It's an injury concern. It's not
39:55
Speaker 2: like you're getting somebody in that next year and you're like,
39:58
Speaker 2: I got Bobby Miller. Let's hope he he's does better
40:01
Speaker 2: and it falls apart because you've only seen a handful
40:04
Speaker 2: of games of the Majors. We're not talking about a
40:06
Speaker 2: skill issue here. It's a health issue. It's not a
40:09
Speaker 2: Ricky tetem In health issue. It's a Grace and Rodriguez
40:12
Speaker 2: health issue that I I think I'm still willing to
40:16
Speaker 2: invest at least for one more try, one more season here.
40:19
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I think that's fair enough. And I think
40:21
Speaker 1: we can obviously discuss when he gets back and kind
40:24
Speaker 1: of down the stretch and how it looks, because I
40:26
Speaker 1: think that's going to be really important as it plays out,
40:28
Speaker 1: because this is a guy where like, yeah, if he
40:30
Speaker 1: was on a losing ball club, I think Grayson Rodriguez's
40:34
Speaker 1: season might be over, but the Ore need him real bad.
40:37
Speaker 2: So it's the same thing with Westburg, Like I don't
40:40
Speaker 2: see him coming back until like the difference to me,
40:43
Speaker 2: I see him potentially coming back in a rehab, trying
40:46
Speaker 2: to build himself up and then get like two starts
40:48
Speaker 2: at the end of the season and then going to
40:50
Speaker 2: the playoffs again. That's kind of what I see here.
40:52
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, and now we've got to really like carve
40:57
Speaker 1: out some space for some grieving as a sad moment
41:00
Speaker 1: as Luisprinhifo goes down with season ending risk surgery. Sad
41:05
Speaker 1: moment for all rasballers out here, especially me, because I mean,
41:09
Speaker 1: Louis Ranhifo was on lots of my teams. Just because
41:13
Speaker 1: when you get somebody with second, shortstop, third base, outfield
41:17
Speaker 1: eligibility playing all the time in a great ballpark like Anaheim,
41:22
Speaker 1: slashing three hundred three forty seven four seventeen in the
41:26
Speaker 1: seventy eight games, you can just double his stats pretty much.
41:29
Speaker 1: He would have put up twelve homers he had six
41:31
Speaker 1: in that time, had twenty four st Dolen bases, which
41:34
Speaker 1: was amazing. He entered the season with a total career
41:38
Speaker 1: of eighteen so that came out nowhere as the Go
41:41
Speaker 1: Go Angels under Ron Washington, Louis Brinhifo was the man.
41:46
Speaker 1: I just want everybody out there to respect this sad
41:49
Speaker 1: moment in my life, as I can't use Louis Ranhifo
41:52
Speaker 1: in any fantasy leagues down the stretch. Do you have
41:54
Speaker 1: anything to say on Louis brin Hifo in this eulogi
42:00
Speaker 1: uro Shares because I had a leaks.
42:05
Speaker 2: So it only helps me at the end of the day,
42:09
Speaker 2: and I guess the only partying count I have to say.
42:12
Speaker 2: Something good came out of LA this year, but it's
42:16
Speaker 2: only fitting that it ended.
42:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me see what his contract status is, because
42:21
Speaker 1: I'm he does seem like somebody they're just never going
42:24
Speaker 1: to get rid of, although he's he's a freegent efter
42:28
Speaker 1: next year, so certainly I'm sure Nico will be on
42:31
Speaker 1: lots of my teams next year, and I'm hoping Ron
42:33
Speaker 1: Washington's still around to tell him to go on those bases.
42:36
Speaker 2: He's like the keky Hernandez of the of the Al
42:41
Speaker 2: just never wants to go away.
42:44
Speaker 1: Originally, yeah, I thought he would be that could tell Marte.
42:46
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's just I'm not even sure what he is.
42:49
Speaker 1: He's like some sort of really castro clone but really's
42:53
Speaker 1: also in the Al. All right, Well, now that that
42:56
Speaker 1: sad moments over, let's get into a couple of picture
42:59
Speaker 1: picture injuries to wrap up this section. The first is
43:02
Speaker 1: we got Max Sures that are going down with shoulder
43:04
Speaker 1: fatigue down in Texas, and I guess the major question
43:08
Speaker 1: here is do we see Max Sures are back in
43:11
Speaker 1: any capacity because this does seem like a old man injury,
43:15
Speaker 1: like the body's just kind of done it?
43:20
Speaker 2: Does It very much does feel that way. And to
43:22
Speaker 2: be honest, like I have in a dynasty type league
43:25
Speaker 2: and I'm like shopping him as much as I possibly can,
43:28
Speaker 2: Like do you still believe I was kind of doing
43:30
Speaker 2: it even before the injury of like do you believe?
43:33
Speaker 1: Like?
43:33
Speaker 2: Because I do think this is the you know, beginning
43:38
Speaker 2: of the end for Max Sures. Or I saw something
43:41
Speaker 2: of him and Jacob ga Gram hanging out together and
43:44
Speaker 2: I was like, oh man, that just hurts. You know,
43:48
Speaker 2: he's not going away anytime soon. But he was already
43:51
Speaker 2: starting to show some signs with the velocity dropping. He
43:55
Speaker 2: just wasn't quite the max Sures that we expect. And
43:57
Speaker 2: again the guys is bording now right, and so that
44:02
Speaker 2: it is that time where it is starting to slow down,
44:05
Speaker 2: and it's surprising he's he's lasted this long and being
44:09
Speaker 2: as good as he is. Don't get me wrong, I
44:11
Speaker 2: still will take Maxtures on my teams. I think you
44:13
Speaker 2: just have to like temper of like seventy percent of
44:17
Speaker 2: who you want Max Suser to be and then you
44:19
Speaker 2: should be perfectly, perfectly happy. But to your point, I
44:22
Speaker 2: don't know if we if we see him again this season.
44:26
Speaker 2: I think it really comes down to what's happening in
44:28
Speaker 2: the standings at that point in time. And you know,
44:32
Speaker 2: Texas is not they're not out of it now, but
44:37
Speaker 2: they're not really in it either. It's it's one thing
44:41
Speaker 2: to say you're five and a half games back in
44:44
Speaker 2: the in the standings while also being you know, seven
44:47
Speaker 2: games under five hundred, so that welcome to the in
44:52
Speaker 2: El Central. But that's kind of that that wouldn't fly
44:55
Speaker 2: in l Central this year. But yeah, well it's very
44:59
Speaker 2: very very fair, but that's the which I guess we
45:03
Speaker 2: picked another division. Uh, but as in Central for the
45:06
Speaker 2: last five.
45:06
Speaker 1: Years, it's actually the Al West is the worst division,
45:09
Speaker 1: like for the far by their hanging Yeah exactly.
45:13
Speaker 2: So it to your point, like a unless they go
45:16
Speaker 2: on a heater here, I think sure's gonna gonna probably
45:20
Speaker 2: be dumb for the year.
45:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay. The next injury we've got is to the
45:25
Speaker 1: Braves Raynaldo Lopez, as he is battling a forearm injury.
45:30
Speaker 1: So we didn't actually cover this when he originally went down,
45:33
Speaker 1: but it looked like he was making progress from an
45:35
Speaker 1: initial like forearm strain and then went onto the il
45:40
Speaker 1: with one just the other day. And so this has
45:44
Speaker 1: been pretty concerning because I think this has been like
45:47
Speaker 1: the one concern as you especially have somebody like Lopez
45:51
Speaker 1: who was in the bullpen last year and has stretched
45:53
Speaker 1: out to be a starter this year. You know, he
45:55
Speaker 1: had only thrown around sixty innings for the previous three
45:59
Speaker 1: years and this year he's already up to one hundred
46:02
Speaker 1: and four and two thirds over nineteen starts. It's been
46:04
Speaker 1: fantastic with a two zero six RA but four arm
46:08
Speaker 1: injuries never great because that usually portends something with the
46:11
Speaker 1: elbow or just something else more significant going on, because
46:15
Speaker 1: what the forearm is doing, it's coming from especially the
46:18
Speaker 1: grip of the ball, and he's feeling something else going
46:21
Speaker 1: on in his form and just like his entire armed
46:23
Speaker 1: and gripping that ball harder to ensure that he's making
46:28
Speaker 1: his pitches. So I think my takeaway in question for
46:32
Speaker 1: you here is there's been I think a little bit
46:36
Speaker 1: of like a revolution here that you know the Marvel
46:39
Speaker 1: has tried to do with this with aj Pucket at
46:41
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. You also, I think about
46:44
Speaker 1: like players who haven't pitched a lot during their careers
46:47
Speaker 1: and are getting into like new career highs, like I
46:50
Speaker 1: mean Tyler Glass now has is getting into career high
46:53
Speaker 1: territory and he's been rough over his past five starts
46:56
Speaker 1: with a six cra Garrett Crochet is only like going
46:59
Speaker 1: a couple innings every outing. There's still two months left
47:04
Speaker 1: in this fantasy season, I think going into next year, like,
47:08
Speaker 1: these guys are exciting. They've been good pictures for you
47:11
Speaker 1: down the stretch or like through this point. But like
47:15
Speaker 1: at the draft table, this was always my concern with Glass. Now,
47:18
Speaker 1: why I didn't end up with any shares, but I
47:20
Speaker 1: think it's something I'm gonna kind of track here over
47:23
Speaker 1: the next couple months and make sure, like I keep
47:26
Speaker 1: tabs going into next year in the draft of like
47:29
Speaker 1: where people's career highs and innings are, because if they
47:33
Speaker 1: can't give me those stretch run innings and I'm on
47:36
Speaker 1: the wire scrambling for whatever matchup I can find, that's
47:40
Speaker 1: brutal and puts you back behind, especially in strikeouts I've found.
47:45
Speaker 1: I guess it's do you think that's a valid strategy
47:48
Speaker 1: going forward into twenty twenty five drafts? Or am I
47:51
Speaker 1: overreacting to this too much and I should just kind
47:54
Speaker 1: of take the deals on these pictures where they come
47:56
Speaker 1: at the draft table.
47:58
Speaker 2: I don't think you're you're off base here, Like I
48:01
Speaker 2: think there's a maybe a little difference between like the
48:04
Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet situation than like a Rednoultle Brope Lopez or
48:08
Speaker 2: even a Tyler Glass now guys that just have never
48:11
Speaker 2: been able to do that versus Crochet guy that's building
48:14
Speaker 2: up to it. So I'm a little bit more willing
48:15
Speaker 2: to go after a guy like Crochet and see kind
48:18
Speaker 2: of what he would would be bringing uh to the equation.
48:24
Speaker 2: You know, I go back and look at a guy
48:27
Speaker 2: like Ranger Swarrez, guy that actually started kind in the
48:30
Speaker 2: bullpen and historically throughout his career last three seasons that
48:38
Speaker 2: he's really been mainly a starter. He has struggled in
48:41
Speaker 2: the second half. You know, it's it's not been I
48:45
Speaker 2: would say, like absolutely night and day he had he
48:49
Speaker 2: did and I think it was twenty two kind of
48:51
Speaker 2: come to the scene in the second half, but he
48:53
Speaker 2: he's kind of like done really well and then kind
48:55
Speaker 2: of tailed off. It's like those guys that they just
48:58
Speaker 2: don't seem to have that same stamina. So I will
49:00
Speaker 2: say a number of my leagues I did go into
49:02
Speaker 2: this year like I really focused on I'm gonna say
49:05
Speaker 2: the two hundred inning workhorses, which don't really exist, let's
49:08
Speaker 2: be honest. But like the guys that had like one
49:10
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty to two hundred innings consistently and if
49:13
Speaker 2: they got hurt, like I'll give it to It's a
49:16
Speaker 2: difference between a guy that gets hurt missus, you know,
49:18
Speaker 2: five ten games because they you know, tweak it hammy
49:21
Speaker 2: or you know, the latt leak, whatever it is. But
49:26
Speaker 2: then then they're back and they continue to do that.
49:29
Speaker 2: It's kind of like your age old Cole Hamil's type thing,
49:32
Speaker 2: where like you just knew Cole Hamil's was going to
49:34
Speaker 2: be two hundred and two ten innings, and you were
49:37
Speaker 2: that you just took it to the bank. And so
49:40
Speaker 2: with the the state of pitching that is so few
49:43
Speaker 2: and far between anymore, you can actually kind of get
49:47
Speaker 2: the more from your dollar by looking at that picture
49:50
Speaker 2: that might not be as high in the cape or
49:52
Speaker 2: nine or something like that, but is gonna give you
49:55
Speaker 2: the innings because you need one less starter. If you're
49:58
Speaker 2: bringing those guys in. If you got the guy that
49:59
Speaker 2: goes the seventh and the eighth inning versus the guy
50:01
Speaker 2: that's barely making five over the season, you, like I said,
50:05
Speaker 2: put two of those guys out there that go in
50:07
Speaker 2: the seventh versus one, or versus like three guys going
50:11
Speaker 2: to the fifth. It's basically the same thing. You're getting
50:14
Speaker 2: the same amount of innings and you're probably paying more
50:18
Speaker 2: for the potential upside of those of those youngsters or
50:21
Speaker 2: glassdows that are just high octane, but you're gonna be
50:24
Speaker 2: fighting all season long.
50:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think that that's a I think we're
50:30
Speaker 1: kind of on the same page there, but like I
50:32
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a lot of like more nuanced
50:35
Speaker 1: I think at the draft table than just like looking
50:38
Speaker 1: at raw skills and kind of looking at stuff plus
50:41
Speaker 1: rankings and things like that and kind of taking projections
50:44
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. That like, it's there's so
50:48
Speaker 1: much that goes into picture evaluation and it's just another
50:51
Speaker 1: thing we've got to consider, I think going forward.
50:53
Speaker 2: The interesting thing that I think we need to watch
50:56
Speaker 2: with Lopez Gentry, they called up Bryce Elder and first
51:00
Speaker 2: guy to say, not a Bryce Elder truth there. He
51:03
Speaker 2: he was a babe, you know, darling at the beginning
51:07
Speaker 2: of last year and then the wheels just fell off.
51:10
Speaker 2: And I'll give credit here where credits due, but Lance
51:14
Speaker 2: Rose that Rosedowski. Uh, he's you know, big pitcher guru,
51:19
Speaker 2: always watching things, and he just puts something out today
51:21
Speaker 2: that basically the Elder significantly changes pitch usage between April
51:27
Speaker 2: and May and when he's now come back to the
51:31
Speaker 2: to the majors, and his slider usage went up from
51:34
Speaker 2: the mid twenties to forty percent. And his slider from
51:37
Speaker 2: a fangrafts like pitching perspective, The stuff plus is a
51:42
Speaker 2: one thirty nine, which is like a plus plus slider.
51:46
Speaker 2: His vasketball is a seventy, which is like thirty percent
51:48
Speaker 2: worse than the average. And so I'm not jumping on
51:51
Speaker 2: the Brice Elder train, but I love guys that make
51:55
Speaker 2: changes to their pitch mix and they like basically like,
51:57
Speaker 2: I know it works, and I'm just going to go
51:59
Speaker 2: for it. And so if all of a sudden Bryce
52:01
Speaker 2: Elder starts to do some good things, there's actually something
52:04
Speaker 2: behind it versus baby book, so keep an eye.
52:07
Speaker 1: Out for it. Yeah, you can do that in two weeks,
52:11
Speaker 1: because the Lena literally just sent down Bryce Eldert like.
52:14
Speaker 2: Did they oh jeez? Well okay, well.
52:21
Speaker 1: I didn't catch it either because I was like looking
52:22
Speaker 1: at his patients like yeah, baby, I was like, wait, okay,
52:25
Speaker 1: he's not in the rotation and roster resource and.
52:29
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, Well you know it's it's a good thing
52:32
Speaker 2: when we do great analysis on this on this podcast.
52:34
Speaker 2: If you made it this far, you got your money's worth.
52:37
Speaker 2: Let's just forget the last few minuts here.
52:40
Speaker 1: Hey, I mean I think it's yeah, but it is
52:43
Speaker 1: getting to the point too. In the pitching side where honestly,
52:46
Speaker 1: that might be a worthy stash because especially as somebody
52:51
Speaker 1: who has to find an al only in an NL
52:54
Speaker 1: only picture to suggest every week, it's slim pickens out there,
52:58
Speaker 1: and it's really easy to hurt yourself in terms of
53:01
Speaker 1: like trying to bark up Colorado Rockies or Oakland A's
53:05
Speaker 1: or Chicago White Sox tree that can do worse than
53:08
Speaker 1: Price Elder. But we've got one more injury here, and
53:11
Speaker 1: that is I mean, I know, we just eulogized Luis
53:16
Speaker 1: when he fo for me. I figured we'd give you
53:19
Speaker 1: some time in space two more. And your boy, Lance
53:21
Speaker 1: mccully's junior, as it's been announced he's not making a
53:25
Speaker 1: return this year. I'm just wondering how many shares Lance
53:28
Speaker 1: mccollery's junior you're picking up for next year, because he's
53:31
Speaker 1: clearly going to be ready for spring training, right.
53:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, Lance McCullers is one of those guys that
53:38
Speaker 2: there's just a lot of talent out there, and I
53:42
Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked if he gets for spring training, makes
53:44
Speaker 2: a few starts, and I'm picking over the back of
53:46
Speaker 2: the drafts, going yeah, it's a freebee. Let's look for it.
53:49
Speaker 2: Don't put anything into it. I'm telling you now. If
53:51
Speaker 2: I say it next spring, don't listen to me. Lance
53:54
Speaker 2: McCullers is not something you should be investing in. But
53:57
Speaker 2: let me let me dream.
53:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm with you, like I will forever,
54:03
Speaker 1: like stream as starts if he's making them, but certainly
54:06
Speaker 1: not anything you ever want to be investing in going forward.
54:09
Speaker 1: But Lance mccullor's we wish you the best in the
54:11
Speaker 1: off season and hopefully we can see you in the
54:14
Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty eight.
54:15
Speaker 2: Third Times of the Charm. We'll make it back next season.
54:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's been quite the stretch of him. So yeah,
54:21
Speaker 1: let's cover some of the Baseball card news before we
54:25
Speaker 1: take a break and come back with our July player
54:27
Speaker 1: at the month PC. Just a few calendar updates, so
54:30
Speaker 1: we're actually speaking on August seventh, like I said earlier,
54:33
Speaker 1: and that is the release date for TOPS Finest. So
54:38
Speaker 1: we're not going to do a big overview of Tops Finest,
54:40
Speaker 1: but I think it is one of the more fun
54:42
Speaker 1: sets every year. But I will emphasize fun as well
54:45
Speaker 1: because I have found, especially the modern finest stuff doesn't
54:49
Speaker 1: age quite as well or like value quite as well
54:51
Speaker 1: as like your traditional flagship and your chrome, or even
54:56
Speaker 1: like Stadium Club nowadays because people have gotten to Stadium Club,
55:00
Speaker 1: but certainly especially if you were like an eighties nineties collector,
55:03
Speaker 1: And remember like the first Finest sets that came out
55:06
Speaker 1: in ninety three and ninety four and ninety two, maybe
55:10
Speaker 1: I think might have actually been the first. No, I
55:11
Speaker 1: think it's ninety three, and those were just like the
55:15
Speaker 1: product that Finest has. I love the design, I love
55:18
Speaker 1: the art, and I'm will always pick up cards for
55:22
Speaker 1: my PC and out of like the Finest, but I
55:26
Speaker 1: usually let it age a little bit because it doesn't
55:28
Speaker 1: seem to hold as much value unless you're at the
55:30
Speaker 1: upper upper end, and certainly I think that's going to
55:34
Speaker 1: be the same with this product out there. But brew
55:36
Speaker 1: when's the last time have you ripped any Finest.
55:40
Speaker 2: Sent or No, I really haven't, And just kind of
55:42
Speaker 2: to your point, like it was ninety three when Finest
55:45
Speaker 2: came out, and it was like it's like the tops
55:48
Speaker 2: Chrome of ninety the nineties, Like it was the flashy
55:52
Speaker 2: product that like it's hard to get high end cards
55:57
Speaker 2: like that, that's what makes it so fun. So I've myself,
56:00
Speaker 2: you know, going towards that nineties finest, even the early
56:04
Speaker 2: two thousand's Finest and picking those cards up, those are
56:06
Speaker 2: a lot more entertaining, you know, Finest Now, like I
56:09
Speaker 2: do feel like it's it's lost a little bit of
56:11
Speaker 2: the allure and it's almost like they've combined it with
56:14
Speaker 2: like I go back, I look at the designs now,
56:16
Speaker 2: it's like tops Fire lost the Top's Finest and they.
56:19
Speaker 1: Like it's almost a little bit too, and it's it's.
56:22
Speaker 2: Kind of like losses identity where it used to be
56:25
Speaker 2: just so clear what you know, Top's Finest was it
56:29
Speaker 2: had you know, crazy borders, crazy cool designs. You know,
56:37
Speaker 2: we went through years of having the peel off protective
56:41
Speaker 2: film on them, and so you know, as you've gotten
56:45
Speaker 2: to I want to say the twenty ten and later
56:50
Speaker 2: Finest really really started to kind of drop off from
56:52
Speaker 2: a design perspective, and that's that's definitely hard it but
56:57
Speaker 2: it's still a very fun product. I think it's pretty ice.
57:00
Speaker 2: If I recall like two fifty for a hobby, you
57:02
Speaker 2: get two autos in there, but it's it's just it's
57:07
Speaker 2: a so i'd love to rip and I and it's
57:10
Speaker 2: I if you're gonna stretch your budget on one, this
57:12
Speaker 2: I think is one. I'd actually suggest doing it, just
57:16
Speaker 2: because it is a very fun product. But to your point,
57:21
Speaker 2: it doesn't hold the value that it that it wants.
57:23
Speaker 1: Did Yeah, I agree, And and part of it too
57:26
Speaker 1: is it's actually like a little bit in between in
57:29
Speaker 1: terms of how many like cards are in the box,
57:33
Speaker 1: Like it's not as many as like a tops chrome,
57:35
Speaker 1: but it's not as few as like some of these
57:39
Speaker 1: really like one offsets that we're talking about, like Tier
57:41
Speaker 1: one or museum collection or something. So you get sixty
57:44
Speaker 1: cards in the box, and that's actually more than I
57:47
Speaker 1: think it sometimes has been because I did rip it
57:50
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Yeah, twenty twenty, I ripped some finest
57:54
Speaker 1: and it was a very small box and it didn't
57:57
Speaker 1: get that many cards out of it because it is
57:59
Speaker 1: a very premium product. But it's a great gift too,
58:03
Speaker 1: Like if you're looking for something to give somebody, this
58:05
Speaker 1: would be a good one. I don't know if I
58:08
Speaker 1: do it with this year's set, because it looks like
58:10
Speaker 1: they're traded for like around three in a bucks for
58:13
Speaker 1: a box like three to three fifty, so that is
58:16
Speaker 1: pricey kind of gets back to all of our tops
58:18
Speaker 1: chrome stuff that we discussed a few weeks ago. But
58:21
Speaker 1: it is certainly a hot market for new products out there.
58:25
Speaker 1: I would say, way to beat if you can do
58:28
Speaker 1: it and you're not trying to chase the set or
58:30
Speaker 1: there's not some sort of specific tie you have to
58:33
Speaker 1: chrome or finest out there, you know.
58:35
Speaker 2: And if you're looking for gifts, we have merchas, We
58:40
Speaker 2: got mugs. I'm just I just thrown on there. We
58:44
Speaker 2: still have, you know, some wonderful t shirts out there,
58:48
Speaker 2: so hey, just just saying Finess. But if it's not
58:51
Speaker 2: in the budget, we got you covered.
58:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get so many hats for a box
58:55
Speaker 1: at Finess from us. But the other news that we
58:59
Speaker 1: have in the card schedule is they were supposed to
59:03
Speaker 1: also release Tops Pro debut today. They pushed that back
59:06
Speaker 1: to eight twenty three. They also added to eight twenty
59:10
Speaker 1: three the release of twenty twenty four Tops Pristine, which
59:16
Speaker 1: it it does upset me a little bit to see
59:19
Speaker 1: that like Fire got cut and like Inception got cut
59:23
Speaker 1: and they kept Tops Pristine because Tops Pristine is not
59:27
Speaker 1: a great desirable set. I don't like they've been bringing
59:30
Speaker 1: it out a couple of years now since the pandemic,
59:32
Speaker 1: but I've not run into one person that's like, yeah,
59:36
Speaker 1: tops pristine. When the flip side is some of the
59:40
Speaker 1: sets that we lost, I'd rather have them back. But
59:43
Speaker 1: it is cool. It's got fun refractors, lots of fun color.
59:46
Speaker 1: It's gonna have encased refractors again, just like it has
59:50
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. But you can mark that
59:52
Speaker 1: on your calendars if you're looking for it. Otherwise, things
59:55
Speaker 1: have kept pretty study out there. So I think with that,
59:59
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our break now and we will be
1:00:01
Speaker 1: back after it to cover our July Player of the
1:00:04
Speaker 1: Month PC. So stick around, all right, Welcome back everybody.
1:00:25
Speaker 1: We are going to get into our July Player of
1:00:28
Speaker 1: the Month PC. And so if you're not familiar with this,
1:00:31
Speaker 1: you can go back to each of our first episodes
1:00:35
Speaker 1: from every month over the past summer. We've just started this.
1:00:39
Speaker 1: I guess this year. It's only our second season. I'm
1:00:41
Speaker 1: doing the PUD, so not like we have a huge
1:00:45
Speaker 1: rich history, but you can go back and see. What
1:00:47
Speaker 1: we do is go through the Player of the Months
1:00:50
Speaker 1: from each previous month and pick cards from each player
1:00:56
Speaker 1: to put into our PC. Just a little fun exercise
1:00:59
Speaker 1: to not only highlight who's had really crazy months, but
1:01:02
Speaker 1: also to discuss some really awesome cards, because we've got
1:01:07
Speaker 1: some bangers here tonight, and we're gonna kick it off
1:01:09
Speaker 1: with a super deeper star to start everything. Because Bobby
1:01:14
Speaker 1: wit Junior is the al player of the Month. As
1:01:18
Speaker 1: he put up, I mean, I didn't fully realize that
1:01:23
Speaker 1: this was going on until maybe like fourteen days ago
1:01:27
Speaker 1: or so, just like a couple of weeks, maybe like
1:01:31
Speaker 1: eight to ten days after the break of when Bobby
1:01:34
Speaker 1: wit Junior really showed up in the home Run Derby
1:01:37
Speaker 1: and almost won it that his July was absolutely off
1:01:43
Speaker 1: the hook. He had one hundred plate appearance played appearances
1:01:46
Speaker 1: over which he slashed for eighty nine five point twenty
1:01:50
Speaker 1: eight thirty eight for a WRC plus of two seventy
1:01:55
Speaker 1: seven homers, eight doubles, twenty six runs scored twenty two hour.
1:02:02
Speaker 1: I picked Bobby wit Junior as my ALE MVP candidate
1:02:05
Speaker 1: for the beginning of the year in our staff predictions.
1:02:08
Speaker 1: This month has put Bobby wait Junior right back into
1:02:11
Speaker 1: the conversation I think with Aaron Judge, especially if the
1:02:14
Speaker 1: Royals do make it through the playoff battle and the
1:02:18
Speaker 1: al and come away with a wild card. Absolutely insane.
1:02:22
Speaker 1: I think Bobby Wood Junior is lining up. It's going
1:02:26
Speaker 1: to be a tough battle I think going into next
1:02:27
Speaker 1: year for twenty twenty five drafts between him and Otani
1:02:30
Speaker 1: because we'll have picture Otani back. But I think it's
1:02:34
Speaker 1: gonna be one or the other for that number one pick.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: We can marinate on that as we also, you know,
1:02:41
Speaker 1: we'll probably have a first round mock over the next
1:02:44
Speaker 1: you know month or so, because that's what we did
1:02:47
Speaker 1: last year, and I really liked it last year, and
1:02:49
Speaker 1: we'll revisit it. But I'm not going to hold you
1:02:52
Speaker 1: up any longer. Brew, I know you've been waiting to
1:02:54
Speaker 1: get some more Bobby Wit Junior cards into our PC.
1:02:57
Speaker 1: So what did you pick out there?
1:03:00
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I am. I am absolutely excited one of
1:03:02
Speaker 2: the best players out in the game and had to
1:03:06
Speaker 2: go with a color match. But I'm going a little
1:03:08
Speaker 2: on the outside of the color match here with one
1:03:11
Speaker 2: of the newer parallels that we've had for the last
1:03:12
Speaker 2: two years, and I'm going with Bobby Witz twenty twenty
1:03:15
Speaker 2: three tops Chrome frozen Fractor. There's it's technically out of zero,
1:03:22
Speaker 2: but there's five of these. There's five of them the set,
1:03:24
Speaker 2: but technically it's out of zero because it's negative five
1:03:27
Speaker 2: out of zero, negative four out of zero and so on.
1:03:30
Speaker 2: This is an absolute beautiful card. Is you call it
1:03:35
Speaker 2: a color match because it's the frozen hint of blue
1:03:39
Speaker 2: and it's his his rookie cup card. Very you know,
1:03:43
Speaker 2: I did very much like the twenty twenty three design
1:03:47
Speaker 2: of the Top Chrome cards, and this is just a
1:03:51
Speaker 2: perfect card for the PC, very easily accessible for the
1:03:55
Speaker 2: general ligue. Low price, about two thousand dollars, just guessing
1:04:00
Speaker 2: you could probably get it for maybe, you know, eighteen
1:04:02
Speaker 2: hundred if you're really skimping by this. This is an
1:04:06
Speaker 2: incredible card. I absolutely love it. And the frozen factor
1:04:10
Speaker 2: felt like a stretch when you're trying to put a
1:04:12
Speaker 2: card out of zero, but it does work. It's better
1:04:16
Speaker 2: than a Taco fractor. You can't deny that. And so
1:04:19
Speaker 2: I'm going with Bobby WITHS twenty twenty three tops Chrome
1:04:22
Speaker 2: sub zero frozen factor.
1:04:25
Speaker 1: I think it's an excellent pick because of the light
1:04:27
Speaker 1: blue that the Royals sometimes wear, and it kind of
1:04:31
Speaker 1: turns everything light blue on this card, but you still
1:04:34
Speaker 1: get the gold cup on it, which is kind of
1:04:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have that in this year's
1:04:39
Speaker 1: Frozen Fractors where it's any color but like white or blue.
1:04:41
Speaker 1: So as they were figuring that out last year, it
1:04:44
Speaker 1: might stand out as like if it's a thing going
1:04:46
Speaker 1: forward for tops Chrome that like, hey, the first year
1:04:49
Speaker 1: there actually was some other hints of color. So yeah,
1:04:53
Speaker 1: great choice. I did forget to say that. If you
1:04:56
Speaker 1: want to see pictures of these cards were describing, because
1:04:58
Speaker 1: obviously this is and audio medium, click on those show notes.
1:05:03
Speaker 1: Not only can you find those hats that Brew suggested
1:05:07
Speaker 1: picking up in the first half of the show, but
1:05:10
Speaker 1: you can also find a link to rasball dot com
1:05:12
Speaker 1: where we have pictures of all these cards. Who can
1:05:15
Speaker 1: check them out there yourself.
1:05:16
Speaker 2: And if you want to see what Bobby Wit will
1:05:18
Speaker 2: look like as a smurf, because the picture on there
1:05:21
Speaker 2: has the blue hue of the headshot in the corner
1:05:24
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty three tops Chrome, go check it
1:05:26
Speaker 2: out over on Rasball Bobby Witt as a smurf. But
1:05:30
Speaker 2: the Frozen Factor.
1:05:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want to do in person though, two
1:05:33
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
1:05:36
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, where'd you go?
1:05:38
Speaker 1: For my pick, I went with a rookie card, and
1:05:43
Speaker 1: because I mean, surprisingly this is the first time I've
1:05:45
Speaker 1: gotten to pick any Bobby Witt Junior cards for the PC,
1:05:49
Speaker 1: I'm going with what I think is like my favorite
1:05:52
Speaker 1: of all the rookie cards out there, because let me
1:05:56
Speaker 1: tell you, if you go through TCDB, which is Trading
1:05:59
Speaker 1: card database, there's maybe a million rookie cards Bobby Wit
1:06:03
Speaker 1: Junior between all the different parallels and inserts and everything.
1:06:07
Speaker 1: He obviously came into the league in twenty twenty two
1:06:10
Speaker 1: as a big star. But I'm going with his tops
1:06:13
Speaker 1: update short print variation, just the regular short print, because
1:06:18
Speaker 1: it is maybe one of the most glorious photos of
1:06:21
Speaker 1: Bobby Wit Junior, and it's like what I think about
1:06:24
Speaker 1: what he looks like in my head with It's just
1:06:26
Speaker 1: a great shot from kind of like the back angle
1:06:31
Speaker 1: as he's looking over his shoulder and you can see
1:06:34
Speaker 1: his eye flack, his big old goatee, and his I mean,
1:06:40
Speaker 1: it's not the full prominent like mullet that he sometimes had,
1:06:43
Speaker 1: but it's a pretty good mullet. And I especially noticed
1:06:46
Speaker 1: this when he was during the home run derby this year.
1:06:50
Speaker 1: Bobby Wood Junior looks ridiculous. He looks like a ridiculous
1:06:53
Speaker 1: rock star because he just knows how good of a
1:06:56
Speaker 1: player he is. And like it's a little bit like
1:06:59
Speaker 1: that mo of like you know, if you don't have
1:07:03
Speaker 1: to have like a regular job, you can just like
1:07:05
Speaker 1: look whatever, like what do you want? And Bobby Whit
1:07:07
Speaker 1: Junior leans into that because how many dudes out there
1:07:10
Speaker 1: are rocking Goatee's. Lots of them are rocking and mullets nowadays,
1:07:14
Speaker 1: but not the mullet and go t combo. It's I think,
1:07:18
Speaker 1: just a great encapulation of Bobby Witt Jr. I love
1:07:21
Speaker 1: this card. I wish I could own it.
1:07:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is fabulous. I take a little exception to
1:07:25
Speaker 2: the go te comments as I had a go tea
1:07:26
Speaker 2: for many years.
1:07:28
Speaker 1: But a mullet at the same time.
1:07:30
Speaker 2: That's true, it didn't have the bullet.
1:07:31
Speaker 1: It's you're not doing it in twenty twenty four, Like, uh,
1:07:34
Speaker 1: Goatee's from an era, you know what I mean?
1:07:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but you're absolutely right. I do. I love
1:07:42
Speaker 2: the analogy there of like if you put Bobby Witt
1:07:44
Speaker 2: in like a construction uniform, like he fits he looks
1:07:48
Speaker 2: like he fits in, but he just doesn't give two
1:07:51
Speaker 2: hoots about what anybody thinks, and he's just like, I'm
1:07:54
Speaker 2: so good. I make this look good. And I also
1:07:57
Speaker 2: love the fact that, like this is one of those
1:07:59
Speaker 2: it's a life card, but it doesn't really have to be.
1:08:01
Speaker 2: I get that has the logo patch on it, but
1:08:04
Speaker 2: like you know, his name's just wonderfully centered on the
1:08:09
Speaker 2: card there and there's no question of who it is.
1:08:11
Speaker 2: You don't even need to look at the name placer
1:08:14
Speaker 2: on the card. So great, great pick. I'm a little jealous.
1:08:18
Speaker 2: I'm sticking with my Frozen Factor. But and here's a
1:08:21
Speaker 2: baby ten times more accessible.
1:08:24
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's it's certainly not cheap, but it is
1:08:28
Speaker 1: more available. You can find it a little bit more
1:08:30
Speaker 1: easy than your Frozen Factor. Okay, well, let's hop over
1:08:33
Speaker 1: to the NL player of the month on the batting side,
1:08:37
Speaker 1: and this is another guy because yeah, one of like
1:08:41
Speaker 1: the other things that I do in the fantasy world
1:08:44
Speaker 1: is write some of those blurbs on rodo wire dot com.
1:08:47
Speaker 1: They make it to your fantasy sites. And there's a
1:08:49
Speaker 1: good stretch of time early in July where I was
1:08:51
Speaker 1: getting lots of Rockies games, which I actually kind of
1:08:54
Speaker 1: like because it's really fun writing about Rockies players, and
1:08:57
Speaker 1: especially they're starting pitchers. But Doyle, I just like, for
1:09:02
Speaker 1: three or four straight times that I was writing for
1:09:04
Speaker 1: Roda Wire, I was writing a highlight package for him
1:09:07
Speaker 1: because he had an insane July for the Colorado Rockies.
1:09:12
Speaker 1: Doyle slashed three thirty three three ninety four eight hundred,
1:09:17
Speaker 1: that's a two aweight WRC plus came with eleven homers
1:09:21
Speaker 1: twenty seven RBI, and he's really pushed himself into like
1:09:26
Speaker 1: some rarefied fantasy era as he's now up to nineteen homers,
1:09:31
Speaker 1: twenty one stolen bashes with a two sixty six average.
1:09:34
Speaker 1: Brenton Doyle is gonna like win tons of leagues out there,
1:09:38
Speaker 1: considering he was pretty much free at the draft table
1:09:41
Speaker 1: as he was terrible at the plate last year. But
1:09:44
Speaker 1: with that, Rockies players also fun, I think for cards
1:09:48
Speaker 1: because some of the more unique color combinations out there.
1:09:52
Speaker 1: And so, who did or what card did you go
1:09:54
Speaker 1: with to put into the PC for Brenton Doyle.
1:09:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, Britain Doyle has is pretty thin as far as
1:10:01
Speaker 2: cards out there, just not a big name coming up
1:10:04
Speaker 2: to your point, it has been fantastic, but little Nolan
1:10:07
Speaker 2: Jones ask you get a little flashbacks here with Breton
1:10:10
Speaker 2: Doyle's stat line, But I'm going with the twenty twenty
1:10:14
Speaker 2: four tops chrome purple sonar refractor out of to seventy five.
1:10:19
Speaker 2: It is a fantastic color match. It's also one of
1:10:22
Speaker 2: those cards where and I wish I'd had the math
1:10:25
Speaker 2: the ratio of fielding cards to hitting cards for position players.
1:10:29
Speaker 2: But he is making an outfield diving catch. It's not
1:10:32
Speaker 2: an sp is his base photo image on there? And
1:10:38
Speaker 2: the purple sonar is a really really cool design. I
1:10:43
Speaker 2: mean it makes me think of a sequent dress that
1:10:48
Speaker 2: I would see, you know, somebody wearing out on the town. Right,
1:10:52
Speaker 2: it's not off, I mean just the design that the
1:10:56
Speaker 2: sonar has it is that car had absolutely pops. It's
1:11:01
Speaker 2: hard hard to describe. I probably didn't know justice at
1:11:04
Speaker 2: all by calling a sequin dress card, but it is
1:11:08
Speaker 2: a sight to see. And when you talk about like
1:11:12
Speaker 2: is it available, we're talking like a five dollar card here.
1:11:14
Speaker 2: It's a really cool card for five bucks, absolutely available
1:11:17
Speaker 2: to be in your PC. There's two hundred and seventy
1:11:21
Speaker 2: five out of them out there, Go get one.
1:11:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is a great pick. I do
1:11:25
Speaker 1: agree with you that you can't even actually see it
1:11:28
Speaker 1: very well in the picture because the sonar refractor does
1:11:33
Speaker 1: not photograph well either. In terms of going up on
1:11:37
Speaker 1: eBay listenings and especially, lots of people use scanners, like
1:11:40
Speaker 1: old school scanners skin yep. I don't know why, like
1:11:44
Speaker 1: it's a certain demographic of dudes who learned computers very
1:11:49
Speaker 1: early on in the nineties use scanners. But it's this
1:11:53
Speaker 1: is a beautiful card. If you can get any sonar
1:11:55
Speaker 1: refractor out there, it does kind of help round out
1:11:59
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, because I don't know if we
1:12:01
Speaker 1: can do it justice without seeing one in person. But yeah,
1:12:04
Speaker 1: great choice here with the Tampa Bay Raised logo in
1:12:07
Speaker 1: the background too. Honestly, I was a little jealous that
1:12:10
Speaker 1: you stole this card out from underneath me because it
1:12:12
Speaker 1: would have been my choice if you hadn't gotten into
1:12:14
Speaker 1: it first.
1:12:15
Speaker 2: Hey, that's what happens preparation. Early bird gets the worm
1:12:18
Speaker 2: in this one. The five dollars five dollar purple sonar.
1:12:21
Speaker 1: Yes, well, yes, I'm also going with a purple color match.
1:12:26
Speaker 1: Both of our cards also feature Brenton Doyle in a
1:12:29
Speaker 1: purple jersey. That's part of what I was hinting at
1:12:32
Speaker 1: with the love of Rockies cards that they really pop
1:12:35
Speaker 1: in the purple color. But I'm just going with his
1:12:37
Speaker 1: boring gold plain rookie card from last year than twenty
1:12:41
Speaker 1: twenty three tops Chrome Update Purple Refractor out of two
1:12:46
Speaker 1: fifty again, another affordable card, probably going to run you
1:12:49
Speaker 1: somewhere between like ten to twenty bucks. And I mean
1:12:52
Speaker 1: it's only up right now because he just one Player
1:12:54
Speaker 1: of the Month Brenton Doyle. Can't keep that up. I'm
1:12:58
Speaker 1: sure this thing will fall off a cliff eventually, but
1:13:01
Speaker 1: just a nice clean card of Brenton Doyle. I also
1:13:03
Speaker 1: liked it because it honors him being at the plate,
1:13:06
Speaker 1: which he is usually known for his glove. You know,
1:13:09
Speaker 1: won the goal glove last year, but this year he's
1:13:12
Speaker 1: been putting it together with the bats, so I wanted
1:13:15
Speaker 1: to commemorate that. And hopefully he doesn't win another Player
1:13:18
Speaker 1: of the Month PC or Player of the Month award
1:13:21
Speaker 1: because our PC already took up properly just about the
1:13:26
Speaker 1: only two Brenton Doyle cards out there.
1:13:27
Speaker 2: So yeah, and a little jealousy for any Rockies fan
1:13:32
Speaker 2: out there that's trying to make a color match team
1:13:34
Speaker 2: set with the True True Purple. As a Cardinals fan
1:13:37
Speaker 2: with the True Red originally out of five, I will
1:13:40
Speaker 2: never own a color set of any of my team's
1:13:44
Speaker 2: base corona out there because the possible will get the Rockies.
1:13:48
Speaker 2: You can just imagine the entire team set in the
1:13:51
Speaker 2: true Purple. It just hits, hits, hits differently.
1:13:56
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a fantastic color for refractors. Okay, let's flip
1:14:00
Speaker 1: over to pitchers now. So for the al side, the
1:14:03
Speaker 1: picture of the Month for July was TODJ. Bradley from
1:14:06
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. He had a fantastic month when
1:14:10
Speaker 1: he went three and one across five starts with a
1:14:13
Speaker 1: one forty five ERA, thirty one strikeouts to eight walks,
1:14:17
Speaker 1: and thirty one innings overall. So this is what I
1:14:23
Speaker 1: kind of talked about in the first half with TODJ.
1:14:25
Speaker 1: Bradley's been rounding into a really fantastic fantasy pitcher as well.
1:14:31
Speaker 1: You know, he's up to eighty six and a third
1:14:33
Speaker 1: innings on the season with one hundred and three strikeouts
1:14:36
Speaker 1: a two seventy one ERA. Reminds me a little bit
1:14:40
Speaker 1: of like Irime Chris Archer in terms of like the
1:14:42
Speaker 1: production you're getting and maybe it is the Tampa Bay
1:14:45
Speaker 1: Rays Jersey, but certainly somebody I had some shares in
1:14:49
Speaker 1: because the stuff is filthy. I love watching Todge Bradley
1:14:52
Speaker 1: pick or watching TODJ. Bradley pitch. Which card did you
1:14:57
Speaker 1: pick to put in the PC for Bradley this month?
1:15:00
Speaker 2: Well, I I was curious if you're going to find
1:15:02
Speaker 2: little East Egg I left you in our show notes
1:15:04
Speaker 2: on this one, but I'm taking it you didn't, and
1:15:07
Speaker 2: so I don't think I did. So I went with
1:15:10
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty to Leaf trendy TODZ Bradley Rookie patch auto.
1:15:16
Speaker 2: Technically you know you can argue if his rookie or
1:15:18
Speaker 2: not because it's uh as he's coming up out of
1:15:21
Speaker 2: ninety nine. And these are kind of jumbo patch cards
1:15:24
Speaker 2: if you've seen of the Leaf Trinity patch autos, very
1:15:28
Speaker 2: actually desirable of all the Leaf products, one of the
1:15:30
Speaker 2: most desirable cards out there because the patches are usually fantastic.
1:15:34
Speaker 2: This one is a three color patch and it has
1:15:39
Speaker 2: what you expect to be part of the logo from
1:15:41
Speaker 2: one of those minor League teams. But the East Egg
1:15:45
Speaker 2: I left for you is this is my card. Actually
1:15:47
Speaker 2: the card I own today.
1:15:50
Speaker 1: I didn't.
1:15:53
Speaker 2: And yeah, and so the link I sent you was
1:15:55
Speaker 2: actually my eBay listing of this card because I picked
1:15:58
Speaker 2: this one up there is months ago, for like three
1:16:02
Speaker 2: dollars on eBay because I'm like, Thos Bradley is awesome,
1:16:06
Speaker 2: us Redley is amazing. This is a cool card. And
1:16:10
Speaker 2: now I've got that out there up for auction doing
1:16:13
Speaker 2: my advertising here for myself. But again I had to
1:16:17
Speaker 2: go there because it is a really great card and
1:16:21
Speaker 2: I do love leave Trinity cards.
1:16:23
Speaker 1: Yes, so if you are interested in this card and
1:16:25
Speaker 1: you want to own it, you can haggle with Jeremy
1:16:28
Speaker 1: himself on eBay and buddy, we need to talked about
1:16:32
Speaker 1: your your centering on your photos.
1:16:33
Speaker 2: Because it's questionable at best.
1:16:40
Speaker 1: But yes, great choice. He's also he's got a signature
1:16:45
Speaker 1: that you could swear as Tom Brady.
1:16:47
Speaker 2: But yes, that's about it.
1:16:50
Speaker 1: It doesn't have the twelve, so you know it's not
1:16:52
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. But yes, that is a sick patch and
1:16:57
Speaker 1: that yeah that's kind of how many times have you
1:16:59
Speaker 1: run your finger grow over that patch as well?
1:17:02
Speaker 2: No comment, I'm trying to get the buyers out there.
1:17:04
Speaker 2: But it's a nice one.
1:17:06
Speaker 1: I mean, I figured you were always wearing gloves when
1:17:08
Speaker 1: you were doing it, but details, Yeah, okay, Well my
1:17:13
Speaker 1: pick is I'm going to go with the twenty twenty
1:17:17
Speaker 1: three Tops Chrome Rookie card for Taje Bradley, but the
1:17:20
Speaker 1: Radiating Rookie parallel. So we talked about this a little
1:17:23
Speaker 1: bit the past recap of the twenty twenty four Tops
1:17:27
Speaker 1: Chrome because we didn't really dive into it much last
1:17:30
Speaker 1: year when it came out. It was a new parallel
1:17:32
Speaker 1: the radiating Rookies. It's actually just the base card with
1:17:37
Speaker 1: a different refractor on it where it looks like a
1:17:39
Speaker 1: bunch of like sunshine beams. I figured you can't go
1:17:43
Speaker 1: wrong with a radiating ray card. So it's a great
1:17:48
Speaker 1: marriage between the Tampa Bay Rays radiating Rookies. Lots of rays,
1:17:52
Speaker 1: ray ray ray, ray, ray ray ray. Fantastic little card,
1:17:57
Speaker 1: pretty affordable too. It is a case hit super short print,
1:18:00
Speaker 1: so there's not too many of them out there right
1:18:03
Speaker 1: now listed, but when they do come up, they certainly
1:18:06
Speaker 1: go for cheaper than what they're like sitting there on
1:18:09
Speaker 1: the market for right now. Just maybe wait for the
1:18:11
Speaker 1: next auction if you're looking for one. I think it's
1:18:15
Speaker 1: going to be both of them are preestylid investments. Because
1:18:17
Speaker 1: I do think that, you know, Taj Bradley is just
1:18:21
Speaker 1: turning a corner. He's twenty three. I do think that
1:18:23
Speaker 1: the future is very bright for him, so we will
1:18:25
Speaker 1: see where he goes.
1:18:27
Speaker 2: Wonderful pick. The Radiing Rookies have grown on me a
1:18:31
Speaker 2: lot the last year. I think they are fantastic cards,
1:18:35
Speaker 2: a great parallel the Tops has introduced in the in
1:18:38
Speaker 2: the bevy of parallels they've they've they've brought.
1:18:41
Speaker 1: Out, Yes, and I kind of know why because I
1:18:43
Speaker 1: can see what cards we've picked in the rundown. It's
1:18:47
Speaker 1: getting to Yeah, hint, hint, We'll We'll find out a
1:18:50
Speaker 1: little bit later.
1:18:51
Speaker 2: No foreshadowing there.
1:18:53
Speaker 1: The NL Picture of the Month was Dylan Cease from
1:18:58
Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres and obviously a lot of is
1:19:01
Speaker 1: throwing that no hitter against the Nationals just the other week,
1:19:05
Speaker 1: the second no hitter actually in San Diego Padres history.
1:19:08
Speaker 1: I've witnessed both of them, between him and Joe Musgrove,
1:19:11
Speaker 1: so that's been pretty cool. But Dylan Cees, if you
1:19:14
Speaker 1: also want to kind of talk about taking a star turn,
1:19:17
Speaker 1: He's really turned it on over the past month. In July,
1:19:20
Speaker 1: he put up a two thirty five ear array over
1:19:23
Speaker 1: thirty eight and a third innings with an eleven and
1:19:26
Speaker 1: a half K nine forty nine to strikeouts. The thirteen
1:19:30
Speaker 1: walks went four and two, and really, I mean he
1:19:34
Speaker 1: faced a pretty difficult stretch too that came against here
1:19:39
Speaker 1: was the matchups at Texas home against Arizona, home against Atlanta,
1:19:43
Speaker 1: at Cleveland, at Washington where he through the no hitter,
1:19:47
Speaker 1: then home against the Dodgers. That's who we put up
1:19:50
Speaker 1: that two thirty five array against. He's become I think
1:19:53
Speaker 1: a fantasy ace. I think he's going to be in
1:19:56
Speaker 1: probably back end of maybe like the top ten conversation
1:20:00
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five. I guess we'll kind of see
1:20:03
Speaker 1: where the dust settles and kind of how injuries sort
1:20:05
Speaker 1: their way out down the stretch here. But what card
1:20:08
Speaker 1: did you pick to put in the PC for Dylan
1:20:10
Speaker 1: cease this month?
1:20:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sticking with fun parallels here. We're going with
1:20:15
Speaker 2: his twenty twenty four top Chrome lightboard logo refractor. Another
1:20:22
Speaker 2: super short prints, not a numbered card, but this is
1:20:25
Speaker 2: a new parallel well from twenty twenty four Chrome and
1:20:29
Speaker 2: it's kind of playing on with what they were incredibly
1:20:32
Speaker 2: successful with with the team logo border cards in the
1:20:36
Speaker 2: flagship paper product, and this one has the team logo
1:20:42
Speaker 2: in what you would call a lightboard like on the
1:20:45
Speaker 2: back in a very kind of retro kind of radiating
1:20:50
Speaker 2: type of view. And it's hard to describe unless you
1:20:54
Speaker 2: look at it, but it is an absolutely beautiful card,
1:20:56
Speaker 2: very unique, and if you're a team collector, if you're
1:21:00
Speaker 2: looking cards of a team, you love the logo of
1:21:02
Speaker 2: your team. These cards stand out. And as I look
1:21:05
Speaker 2: at the Dylan ces card, his his fall through making
1:21:08
Speaker 2: a delivery to the plate and it just absolutely sticks out.
1:21:12
Speaker 2: And I had to get something in the Podrais Jersey
1:21:14
Speaker 2: where he's at now. I just wanted to harken because
1:21:17
Speaker 2: how amazing he's been this month with that. No, no,
1:21:20
Speaker 2: like you had to reward him with a Podrais card.
1:21:22
Speaker 2: So going with the lightboard and it's so a little
1:21:27
Speaker 2: pricey out there, those are they're kind of going the
1:21:29
Speaker 2: forty fifty dollars range for the lightboards, so pretty pretty
1:21:32
Speaker 2: much desirable.
1:21:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think they're beautiful cards that, like,
1:21:37
Speaker 1: I know, I've dogged the twenty twenty four design a
1:21:40
Speaker 1: lot on this podcast over the past few months, and
1:21:44
Speaker 1: I it works perfectly with the lightboard design. Every single
1:21:48
Speaker 1: one of them I've seen has been absolutely gorgeous, and
1:21:51
Speaker 1: I think that's probably part of the reason the price
1:21:53
Speaker 1: is so high that even if people were so so
1:21:56
Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty four overall design, like, you can't
1:21:59
Speaker 1: deny how eight these lightboard logo parallels have looked so great.
1:22:04
Speaker 2: Pick all, right, where did you go with Dylan Cees?
1:22:08
Speaker 2: I know he's your boy from the South Side, So
1:22:10
Speaker 2: where'd you go?
1:22:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I had to go. And this is
1:22:13
Speaker 1: one where I almost picked one from my PC to
1:22:17
Speaker 1: put in there. But this is one that I don't
1:22:20
Speaker 1: have this version of the card. I don't think I
1:22:23
Speaker 1: have the auto version of this card anywhere, but I
1:22:25
Speaker 1: do have a few of the base and it also
1:22:28
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite sets that has kind of
1:22:31
Speaker 1: come out in the last like handful of years, five
1:22:34
Speaker 1: years or so. It's twenty twenty tops chrome black refractor
1:22:39
Speaker 1: auto of one point fifty. It's a rookie card for
1:22:42
Speaker 1: Dylan Cees back in twenty twenty. I just love the
1:22:45
Speaker 1: twenty twenty black chrome design overall that I think it's
1:22:50
Speaker 1: sharp and the refractor is great because the triangles really
1:22:54
Speaker 1: pop in the background with that refractor rainbow and creates
1:22:58
Speaker 1: a little bit of like a mirror effect too. Like
1:23:00
Speaker 1: when you're holding these cards in person, they're just absolutely gorgeous.
1:23:05
Speaker 1: It's a he's got a pretty solid autograph. He's another
1:23:08
Speaker 1: player where there's a ton of rookie cards out there
1:23:11
Speaker 1: because he was a hot rookie for the White Sox
1:23:13
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty. Lots of auto cards too. So
1:23:17
Speaker 1: certainly if you're looking for any of those Dylancy's Auto rookies,
1:23:22
Speaker 1: they're pretty affordable. That like even this of one P
1:23:25
Speaker 1: fifty parallel goes into like the forty to fifty dollars range.
1:23:28
Speaker 1: The base version of this auto only goes in like
1:23:31
Speaker 1: the twenty dollars range. And the base version, non auto
1:23:35
Speaker 1: of this card is very easy to get too. I
1:23:38
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a beautiful card.
1:23:41
Speaker 2: So I think the real question for you, and this
1:23:43
Speaker 2: is this is a true collector question here, hopscrumb black
1:23:47
Speaker 2: autos come in case. Yeah, do you leave it in
1:23:51
Speaker 2: case or do you bust it out?
1:23:54
Speaker 1: It does depend on the condition of the case. So
1:23:58
Speaker 1: if it's a pretty clean case, I leave it incased
1:24:01
Speaker 1: and just roll with it from there. But if you
1:24:03
Speaker 1: get one that's kind of you can tell. The ones
1:24:05
Speaker 1: that have made their ways around card shows are been
1:24:09
Speaker 1: shipped around the country through bubble mailers are hopefully bubble mailers.
1:24:15
Speaker 1: Like you do encounter something there scratch, I will pop
1:24:21
Speaker 1: those open, but otherwise I leave them go what about you?
1:24:25
Speaker 2: I pop almost all open, or I get rid of them.
1:24:27
Speaker 2: I'm a monster box storage guy, and so I need
1:24:32
Speaker 2: them to fit in the box, and these don't fit.
1:24:36
Speaker 2: The faces hanging out the top and throw the lids
1:24:40
Speaker 2: all off, and I can't store them cleanly, and so
1:24:42
Speaker 2: they sit on the side and eventually get frustrated and
1:24:44
Speaker 2: I either if it's a PC, I generally just take
1:24:47
Speaker 2: it out, top load it, move on with life because
1:24:49
Speaker 2: you love the card because they are fantastic cards. It's
1:24:52
Speaker 2: kind of a quasi PC something off the side where
1:24:55
Speaker 2: I was just like cool player, pot it for cheap
1:24:58
Speaker 2: something like that. It's moving on. I just I can't
1:25:01
Speaker 2: keep the encase cards. They drive me nuts.
1:25:04
Speaker 1: So you don't have like an odd balls shape box
1:25:07
Speaker 1: like I've got like two, I've got both like a
1:25:10
Speaker 1: minise like minis parallel box, I've just all the different
1:25:13
Speaker 1: minis and then like another like lunch box. It's like
1:25:17
Speaker 1: a lunch pail where it's got a bunch of like
1:25:19
Speaker 1: the encase stuff that came in case. So you don't
1:25:22
Speaker 1: have something like that.
1:25:23
Speaker 2: It's just literally my I have p s A graded cards,
1:25:29
Speaker 2: a few more sideways in the luster box, which is
1:25:33
Speaker 2: the most inefficient stories about that ever. But I'm like, well,
1:25:36
Speaker 2: I gotta have with the play. I got most of
1:25:39
Speaker 2: my sort of by player, and so I've got to
1:25:41
Speaker 2: have the PC players together. And and if they're I'll
1:25:45
Speaker 2: make the exception if they're the if they're the nice
1:25:47
Speaker 2: display cards, those are usually encase. I got those encased.
1:25:50
Speaker 2: They're grade of those types of things. But if it's
1:25:52
Speaker 2: the PC, just the cards I love. They're sitting in
1:25:56
Speaker 2: a monster box. They're all top loaded in there. Uh
1:26:00
Speaker 2: don't worry. I'm taking care of them. But I got problems.
1:26:05
Speaker 2: It's a guy, no.
1:26:06
Speaker 1: I learned something new about you every pod. Okay, let's
1:26:11
Speaker 1: move on to those rookie player of the months. So
1:26:13
Speaker 1: for the al side, we have twenty two year old
1:26:17
Speaker 1: Colt Keith from the Detroit Tigers. And I love to
1:26:21
Speaker 1: see this because he was so cold to begin this season,
1:26:25
Speaker 1: and it was tough. I mean, obviously Detroit's very cold too,
1:26:28
Speaker 1: so he wasn't the only person who I think struggled
1:26:31
Speaker 1: in Detroit, because lots of people do at the gate there.
1:26:34
Speaker 1: But I felt really good about cold Keith coming into
1:26:38
Speaker 1: the season. That was maybe like my one hesitancy is
1:26:41
Speaker 1: playing in Detroit comes with that park and that really
1:26:44
Speaker 1: cold April. But the July for cold Keith was absolutely stellar.
1:26:49
Speaker 1: He hit three twenty two, four h four, six forty four.
1:26:54
Speaker 1: That's a one ninety WRC plus across ninety nine plate appearances,
1:26:58
Speaker 1: seven homers, three triples, one double, so more more triples
1:27:05
Speaker 1: than doubles in the month of July. That's really what's
1:27:08
Speaker 1: boosting his slugging percentage. But that's also brought his season
1:27:12
Speaker 1: line up to as we're speaking here on August seventh,
1:27:15
Speaker 1: up to two fifty two average with eleven homers. That's
1:27:19
Speaker 1: a pretty solid am I second baseman again, only twenty two.
1:27:23
Speaker 1: I think that the future is very bright for Colt Keith.
1:27:26
Speaker 1: So these are cards that I think will be collectible
1:27:30
Speaker 1: in the future, because I don't think he's a hot
1:27:32
Speaker 1: name in the collecting world. Right now. But if he
1:27:35
Speaker 1: keeps putting up this production level going forward, you can
1:27:39
Speaker 1: just see where the detractory of his career could go.
1:27:42
Speaker 1: What card are you going to pick to put in
1:27:44
Speaker 1: the PC for Colt Keith?
1:27:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you foreshadowed this one. I am going to
1:27:49
Speaker 2: go with a radiating Rookie. We're going with this twenty
1:27:53
Speaker 2: twenty four tops chrome rating Rookie super fractor for Colt Keith.
1:27:58
Speaker 2: Here this is one of one super fractor and you know,
1:28:01
Speaker 2: we kind of just espoused how great they actually did
1:28:04
Speaker 2: with the radi Any Rookies. And if you put the
1:28:07
Speaker 2: superfracture on top of the radi Any Rookies, it makes
1:28:10
Speaker 2: the base rating Rookie look just sad like. And that's
1:28:13
Speaker 2: a beautiful card. I mean this this just you know,
1:28:16
Speaker 2: for those that don't know superfractors, well it's generally a
1:28:20
Speaker 2: gold base, kind of pure sparkle, almost atomic type of card.
1:28:26
Speaker 2: Well when you put that behind a yellow bass starburst
1:28:30
Speaker 2: type card, it just pops to no end. And is
1:28:35
Speaker 2: this card is just unbelievable. Like I said, the one
1:28:38
Speaker 2: of one. It was on EBA. I didn't find see
1:28:40
Speaker 2: the final sale price, but it was best offer at
1:28:43
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars. I'm gonna say it probably went for
1:28:45
Speaker 2: a little less than that, but it is just an
1:28:48
Speaker 2: absolutely unbelievable card somebody now has in their PC absolutely
1:28:53
Speaker 2: enjoying it because there's probably not a prettier, prettier Coult
1:28:56
Speaker 2: Keith card out there.
1:28:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agreed, Like, man, this is one where I
1:29:01
Speaker 1: would love to see it in person because the picture
1:29:03
Speaker 1: you can already tell it doesn't do it justice. And yeah,
1:29:07
Speaker 1: if you aren't familiar with superfactors too, it's actually like
1:29:09
Speaker 1: a gold vinyl. It's called like gold turn, I think
1:29:14
Speaker 1: is what's called that. Like if you've ever seen a
1:29:17
Speaker 1: fire engine up close, they use the same thing on
1:29:20
Speaker 1: the gold lettering on fire engines, and so it's a
1:29:23
Speaker 1: really it's got a texture to it that I would
1:29:25
Speaker 1: love to see this in person. That like, I'm sure
1:29:28
Speaker 1: if you get it under like some sunlight too, it
1:29:30
Speaker 1: just like what just lights up.
1:29:35
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. I can't afford it.
1:29:37
Speaker 1: Okay, well you picked the pretty one, I'm picking the
1:29:40
Speaker 1: weirdo one. I'm going with the twenty twenty four tops
1:29:44
Speaker 1: now number two twenty eight from Cold Keith. Commemorating his
1:29:48
Speaker 1: first home run, I said that he started cold. Here's
1:29:51
Speaker 1: how cold he started. He didn't pop his first home
1:29:54
Speaker 1: run this year until May twenty fourth, And you can
1:29:57
Speaker 1: see the relief on his face in this card. And
1:30:00
Speaker 1: it is just also emblematic of today's like modern baseball
1:30:05
Speaker 1: in terms of he's holding the home run celebration for
1:30:09
Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers this year, which is the little Caesars
1:30:13
Speaker 1: pizza on like the spears, the pizza pizza and wearing
1:30:19
Speaker 1: this might be the worst city connect jersey, I.
1:30:22
Speaker 2: Think the slope softball jersey.
1:30:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the tire tracks, it looks like you've gotten
1:30:27
Speaker 1: run over. Like I can't believe that was approved in
1:30:29
Speaker 1: any facet that Like, it just does look like some
1:30:33
Speaker 1: other opponent or somebody ran over you and did a
1:30:38
Speaker 1: burnout on top of you. It is an awful, awful jersey.
1:30:42
Speaker 1: You had the opportunity to lean into the orange up
1:30:45
Speaker 1: in Detroit with the Tigers that the Tigers like, Man,
1:30:50
Speaker 1: they really blew it. But this is all that I
1:30:52
Speaker 1: think combines to just make a really fantastic card that, like,
1:30:56
Speaker 1: especially if you're a Colt Keith fan out there, I
1:30:59
Speaker 1: think you've got to have this one in there between
1:31:01
Speaker 1: commemorating how slow of a start he had with his
1:31:03
Speaker 1: Spurst homer and just how goofy modern baseball is with
1:31:07
Speaker 1: the celebrations and City Connect uniforms.
1:31:10
Speaker 2: This is just pure unbelievable, an amazing card. To your point,
1:31:17
Speaker 2: who thought who took that picture? And he was like, yes,
1:31:20
Speaker 2: this is the picture we're gonna use. Like, there's gonna
1:31:22
Speaker 2: be so many other other options, and this is what
1:31:25
Speaker 2: they went with. I absolutely love it. This is this
1:31:29
Speaker 2: is fantastic, This is this is the beauty of tops Now.
1:31:32
Speaker 2: Tops Noile is not the most collectible thing, but sometimes
1:31:34
Speaker 2: they just get it right. Whether it's Otani striking out
1:31:36
Speaker 2: Trout in the World Baseball Classic or Colt Keith with
1:31:40
Speaker 2: a little see pizza in a City Connect Jersey. You
1:31:43
Speaker 2: got the spectrum.
1:31:45
Speaker 1: Love it, yes, exactly. So a print run of like
1:31:48
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and twenty eight it looks like so rare
1:31:52
Speaker 1: but not rare, you know. That's kind of like a
1:31:54
Speaker 1: good sweet spot and I think a pretty affordable tops
1:31:57
Speaker 1: Noowl card out there. So if you are in trusted
1:32:00
Speaker 1: by that pizza Pizza, go get it all right. Now
1:32:04
Speaker 1: we're going to get into here's the goofy one. There's
1:32:06
Speaker 1: always it feels like a goofy one, especially as we
1:32:08
Speaker 1: get deeper into the season. This one is crazy, Like
1:32:13
Speaker 1: I didn't even have a chance to cover him in
1:32:15
Speaker 1: the waiver wire report because his his ownership percent is
1:32:18
Speaker 1: shot up so quickly. As who I'm talking about here
1:32:22
Speaker 1: is San Francisco Giants Tyler Fitzgerald, crazy crazy month of July.
1:32:28
Speaker 1: It was only fifty nine played appearances, but he hit
1:32:30
Speaker 1: three twenty one three ninety four eighty nine with a
1:32:34
Speaker 1: two thirty seven slug eight homers, including a stretch of one, two,
1:32:39
Speaker 1: three four five in a row five games with a homer.
1:32:44
Speaker 1: I mean two of those were against Colorado in Colorado,
1:32:48
Speaker 1: but as well as like he hit a couple more homers,
1:32:53
Speaker 1: three more homers against Colorado at home the next weekend.
1:32:56
Speaker 1: It's a lot of like why he did this? I
1:32:58
Speaker 1: one thing I did pick up in the waiver wire
1:33:00
Speaker 1: report was like telling people, hey, you know, it was
1:33:03
Speaker 1: a startch of like seven out of ten games that
1:33:05
Speaker 1: the Giants played the Rockies, and it's like you might
1:33:07
Speaker 1: want to pick people up, but Fitzgerald was the winner
1:33:10
Speaker 1: of that central allnoy boy. He's actually from Springfield, Illinois,
1:33:14
Speaker 1: which I found out today he is twenty six years old.
1:33:18
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much longer this ride's gonna last,
1:33:20
Speaker 1: but he does have three homers already in August at
1:33:24
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and at Washington, so part of it is like, yeah,
1:33:27
Speaker 1: he's in just a crazy stretch of the San Francisco schedule.
1:33:34
Speaker 1: The prices are also going through the roof here too,
1:33:36
Speaker 1: so if you are interested in Tyrold Fitzgerald cards, give
1:33:39
Speaker 1: this a little bit to wait because the prices are
1:33:41
Speaker 1: going through the roof. But I think we've got a
1:33:43
Speaker 1: couple of fun ones here. What card did you pick
1:33:45
Speaker 1: to put in the PC for Tyler Fitzgerald.
1:33:48
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to stay on the kind of goofy
1:33:50
Speaker 2: track here with cards. And Fitzgerald doesn't have a vast
1:33:55
Speaker 2: number of cards out there because he's again what kind
1:33:58
Speaker 2: of like Doyle, wasn't this you know, huge prospect coming up,
1:34:00
Speaker 2: so they didn't have all kinds of options. His rookie
1:34:03
Speaker 2: card was kind of limited. But I am going with
1:34:06
Speaker 2: his twenty twenty three Richmond Flying Squirrels the double A
1:34:10
Speaker 2: team for the Giants team card. This is the choice
1:34:15
Speaker 2: brand that does a lot of the minor league cards.
1:34:19
Speaker 2: No more for the fact that it is the Flying
1:34:22
Speaker 2: Squirrels and they have the logo in there of the
1:34:26
Speaker 2: Flying squirrel I absolutely love it. This is like a
1:34:29
Speaker 2: two dollars card, but it is the Giants. I think
1:34:35
Speaker 2: they have some of the best league teams out there. Like,
1:34:37
Speaker 2: how can you not root for the Flying Squirrels. I've
1:34:39
Speaker 2: never seen them play. I don't know much about where
1:34:42
Speaker 2: they're even located there in Richmond, Like it's just the
1:34:46
Speaker 2: Flying Squirrels, like the greatest branding out there. I didn't
1:34:50
Speaker 2: know they what other options they had, if it was
1:34:53
Speaker 2: the sloths or the bunnies, Like, and you want flying
1:34:55
Speaker 2: Squirrels and good job. I love it. So going with
1:34:59
Speaker 2: kind of a KOOKI here with Tyler Fitzgerald in the
1:35:01
Speaker 2: minor league for the Flying Squirrels.
1:35:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a great choice. It also, like
1:35:07
Speaker 1: Triple A baseball is just funny because you get like
1:35:11
Speaker 1: such a vast difference between the quality of like fields
1:35:14
Speaker 1: and stuff, and you get that in this card with
1:35:16
Speaker 1: just the shadows underneath the lights that it's gonna be
1:35:20
Speaker 1: so hard to hit wherever he was, you know with it,
1:35:22
Speaker 1: I mean it looks like in Richmond because he's wearing
1:35:24
Speaker 1: a white Jersey. But yeah, that's got to be really
1:35:27
Speaker 1: tough to like pick up the ball and that type
1:35:30
Speaker 1: of lighting. And then let's just say that the flying
1:35:33
Speaker 1: Squirrel logo placement, it's a little precarious.
1:35:36
Speaker 2: I might have I was there, but like, yeah, it's
1:35:40
Speaker 2: a little precarious on the regions on which the Flying
1:35:44
Speaker 2: Squirrels presented.
1:35:45
Speaker 1: So but yes, great pick, and uh yeah, I think,
1:35:49
Speaker 1: like you said, Fitzgerald doesn't have too many cards out there,
1:35:52
Speaker 1: but was in Series two and Tops Chrome with Rookies
1:35:56
Speaker 1: that I'm sure when people saw that name on the
1:35:58
Speaker 1: checklist they've grown to But now it's been pretty huge
1:36:02
Speaker 1: because I'm picking an absolutely what is right now a
1:36:07
Speaker 1: monster card because did you see the price on the line.
1:36:12
Speaker 2: I just I just saw it as unbelievable, like this
1:36:15
Speaker 2: is this is the market correction is due.
1:36:18
Speaker 1: But I picked Actually I'll click on it again because
1:36:24
Speaker 1: I forgot the pricing myself. Ended up going for six
1:36:28
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six dollars this card. It is the
1:36:31
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Tops Chrome Auto Orange version of twenty
1:36:35
Speaker 1: five for Tyler Fitzgerald. I picked it obviously for the
1:36:39
Speaker 1: orange color match, but also because this is like the
1:36:43
Speaker 1: one card that I found of what was available, where
1:36:46
Speaker 1: he's very clearly coming back around to the plate after
1:36:50
Speaker 1: hitting a homer and like pointing up to the his
1:36:53
Speaker 1: like whatever god he he serves in terms of like
1:36:59
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the baseball gods, but he's pointing to
1:37:02
Speaker 1: the sky and right after homer, and that's that's who
1:37:05
Speaker 1: he's been, mister Gigante. He's wearing the Gagante's jersey in
1:37:10
Speaker 1: this card that he's been crushing a lot of homers.
1:37:13
Speaker 1: He's been doing this celebration a lot. I thought it's
1:37:15
Speaker 1: a good time to commemorate that, given this card is
1:37:19
Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy six dollars right now. But I'm sure, actually,
1:37:24
Speaker 1: like on release date when it came out, if you
1:37:27
Speaker 1: had ripped this card and pulled it out, it might
1:37:29
Speaker 1: have accidentally ended up in like a dollar box. Because
1:37:32
Speaker 1: Tyler Fitzgerald has certainly shot out of nowhere to be
1:37:35
Speaker 1: able to go on this crazy run. Let's hope it
1:37:37
Speaker 1: keeps going. But I mean, if you've got him in
1:37:40
Speaker 1: any fantasy leagues out there, ride the hot hand while
1:37:42
Speaker 1: you can, I.
1:37:44
Speaker 2: Just have to call out how how insane the price
1:37:46
Speaker 2: on us is, because I'm still astonished by it. Jordan
1:37:49
Speaker 2: Lawler's rookie Auto out of twenty five the same exact
1:37:53
Speaker 2: parallel went for two d twenty seven dollars, a third
1:37:57
Speaker 2: of the price. Then Joyce had a PSA ten, the
1:38:02
Speaker 2: same parallel go for three hundred and eighty dollars and
1:38:04
Speaker 2: they got and that guy got hype going crazy for
1:38:06
Speaker 2: him right now. And you know, I was looking back
1:38:11
Speaker 2: at some of the other you know names, and I
1:38:13
Speaker 2: think one that jumped out to me was Joey H Maness.
1:38:19
Speaker 2: I'm not from now that the same right Vanessa's for
1:38:22
Speaker 2: the Nationals and his rookie and because Manessa's had like
1:38:28
Speaker 2: some major hype right when he came up, and he
1:38:30
Speaker 2: went kind of crazy for a while.
1:38:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy strikers.
1:38:33
Speaker 2: Yep, same card rookie True Orange out of twenty five,
1:38:39
Speaker 2: thirteen dollars.
1:38:41
Speaker 1: Yeah.
1:38:42
Speaker 2: I mean this Gerald card could it could be worth
1:38:46
Speaker 2: twenty bucks in like like a year from now.
1:38:49
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think it's gonna actually I don't
1:38:52
Speaker 1: know if it's ever gonna bottom out too much because
1:38:55
Speaker 1: of the color matches, the color metchal help. Yeah, and
1:38:58
Speaker 1: giants collectors are ravid, like I'm sure whoever was chasing
1:39:03
Speaker 1: this like there aren't there's only obviously twenty five of them,
1:39:06
Speaker 1: and let's see how many of them actually like make
1:39:09
Speaker 1: it to eBay. But especially like where Giants fandom is
1:39:14
Speaker 1: in terms of like all of the weird like Tampa
1:39:17
Speaker 1: Bay Rays mix and matching they do in their lineup,
1:39:20
Speaker 1: they really hold on to to players that I wouldn't
1:39:22
Speaker 1: be surprised just in terms of like folklore, this month
1:39:26
Speaker 1: of Tyler Fitzgerald kind of goes down in Giant's history
1:39:29
Speaker 1: and this card it's not gonna be six hundred and
1:39:31
Speaker 1: seventy six dollars, but it might not ever dip below
1:39:35
Speaker 1: triple digits, honestly.
1:39:36
Speaker 2: So the Kyle Harrison So I'm going back at you
1:39:40
Speaker 2: Giants color match Kyle Harrison Sam exact card Rookie one
1:39:45
Speaker 2: hundred dollars.
1:39:46
Speaker 1: Well, there we go. Triple digits.
1:39:48
Speaker 2: Sorry, ninety six plus shippings.
1:39:51
Speaker 1: Hey plus tax? Yeah, triple digits. I would put that
1:39:54
Speaker 1: on my table for a hundred yep.
1:39:57
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a great card. But I'm just I'm still
1:40:00
Speaker 2: besides myself with the uncertainty of this market.
1:40:03
Speaker 1: Tives not going to be a great ROI on that one.
1:40:06
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. Yeah, but yeah, this was
1:40:09
Speaker 1: a blast. Right wrapping up July, I'm glad that we
1:40:12
Speaker 1: didn't have to dip into the reliever pool, that we
1:40:14
Speaker 1: got some fresh blood. So certainly we gave you cards
1:40:18
Speaker 1: from high end to low end. So if you're following
1:40:20
Speaker 1: along out there and picking up some of these cards,
1:40:23
Speaker 1: I think you've got some pretty great options for this month.
1:40:26
Speaker 1: But let's wrap it up now for this week. Brew
1:40:28
Speaker 1: let everybody know where they can find you, read your stuff,
1:40:31
Speaker 1: and contact you in socials that they want to.
1:40:34
Speaker 2: Yep, find me over at Twitter, slash x at Jay
1:40:37
Speaker 2: Brewer one seven, find me at rasball on the weekends
1:40:40
Speaker 2: on Sundays doing your top one hundred hitters for the
1:40:42
Speaker 2: rest of the season, and Hitter Profiles will be releasing
1:40:44
Speaker 2: another batch to your top one hundred hitters for the
1:40:47
Speaker 2: rest of the season here in a few days. We
1:40:50
Speaker 2: are about a month and a half left, and so
1:40:53
Speaker 2: it is getting dicey, which means everybody's flying around that
1:40:55
Speaker 2: top one hitters. You get hurt, you're out. Now a
1:40:58
Speaker 2: hot week you're in. Let's see where Fitzgerald lands this
1:41:02
Speaker 2: time around? How about you? Where can people find you?
1:41:05
Speaker 1: Who wait for real? Is he in your top one hundred,
1:41:07
Speaker 1: he's cracking.
1:41:08
Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna be real close, it's gonna be real quiet.
1:41:11
Speaker 2: I think the hot streak, he's gonna have to make
1:41:13
Speaker 2: it in just because if this can continue for two
1:41:17
Speaker 2: three weeks, I mean just the average value that he
1:41:21
Speaker 2: produces versus somebody that's that's just playing like their standard
1:41:25
Speaker 2: skill set, Like it's actually gonna pay for itself. So
1:41:27
Speaker 2: that's what's so crazy about the top one hundredth end
1:41:29
Speaker 2: of the season, Like a hot streak is worth it.
1:41:32
Speaker 2: And so if you got that guy that's come up
1:41:34
Speaker 2: hot and rolling, he flies up, I get I get
1:41:38
Speaker 2: so much grief for it. But it's fine. It's all fun.
1:41:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it gets a little wild at the
1:41:43
Speaker 1: end of the season. And you can also find to
1:41:45
Speaker 1: be on ras Ball writing on Saturday with the Waiver
1:41:48
Speaker 1: Wire Report. So if you want to talk craziness, last
1:41:51
Speaker 1: week's was insane and we just covered the Arizona bullpen
1:41:55
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1:41:57
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1:42:01
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